(1818-40)
YEARS OF WIDOWHOOD. DEATH OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S SON.
HER OWN DEATH.
(Extracts from Pocket-book Diary.)
MOURNFUL REFLECTIONS.
May 17, 1818.
This melancholy second Sunday since My
irreparable loss I ventured to church. I hoped it might calm my
mind and subject it to its new state--its lost--lost happiness.
But I suffered inexpressibly; I sunk on my knees, and could
scarcely contain my sorrows--scarcely rise any more! but I
prayed--fervently--and I am glad I made the trial, however
severe. Oh mon ami! mon tendre ami! if you looked down! if that
be permitted, how benignly will you wish my participation in your
blessed relief!
Sunday, May 31.-This was the fourth Sunday passed since I have
seen and heard and been blessed with the presence of my angel
husband. Oh loved and honoured daily more and more! Yet how can
that be? No! even now, in this cruel hour of regret and
mourning it cannot be! for love and honour could rise no higher
than mine have risen long, long since, in my happiest days.
June 3.-This day, this 3rd of June, completes a calendar month
since I lost the beloved object of all my tenderest affections,
and all my views and hopes and even ideas of happiness on earth.
. . .
June 7.-The fifth sad Sunday this of earthly separation! oh
heavy, heavy parting! I went again to church. I think
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it right, and I find it rather consolatory-rather only, for the
effort against sudden risings of violent grief at peculiar
passages almost destroys me; and no prayers do me the service I
receive from those I continually offer up in our apartment by the
side of the bed on which he breathed forth his last blessing. Oh
words for ever dear! for ever balsamic! "Je ne sais si ce sera le
dernier mot--mais ce sera bien la dernire pense--notre
runion."
VISITS RECEIVED AND LETTERS PENNED.
June 18.-My oldest friend to my knowledge living, Mrs. Frances
Bowdler, made a point of admission this morning, and stayed with
me two hours. She was friendly and good, and is ever sensible and
deeply clever. Could I enjoy any society, she would enliven and
enlighten it, but I now can only enjoy sympathy!--sympathy and
pity!
Alex and I had both letters from M. de Lafayette.
June 23.-To-day I have written my first letter since my
annihilated happiness-to my tenderly sympathising Charlotte. I
covet a junction with that dear and partial sister for ending
together our latter days. I hope we shall bring it to bear.
With Alex read part of St. Luke.
June 29.-To-day I sent a letter, long in writing and painfully
finished, to my own dear Madame de Maisonneuve. She will be glad
to see my hand, grieved as she will be at what it has written.
With Alex read part of St. Luke.
June 30-I wrote--with many sad struggles--to Madame Beckersdorff,
my respectful devoirs to her majesty, with the melancholy apology
for my silence during the royal nuptials of the Dukes of
Clarence, Kent, and Cambridge; and upon the departure of dear
Princess Eliza,' and upon her majesty's so frequent and alarming
attacks of ill health.
With Alex read the Acts of the Apostles. . . .
July 8.-I have given to Alex the decision of where we shall
dwell. Unhappy myself everywhere, why not leave unshackled his
dawning life? To quit Bath--unhappy Bath!--he had long desired:
and, finally, he has fixed his choice in the very capital itself.
I cannot hesitate to oblige him.
August 28.-My admirable old friend, Mrs. Frances
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Bowdler, spent the afternoon with me. Probably we shall meet no
more but judiciously, as suits her enlightened understanding, and
kindly, as accords with her long partiality,- she forbore any
hint on that point. Yet her eyes swam in tears, not ordinary to
her, when she bade me adieu.
August 30.-The seventeenth week's sun rises on my deplorable
change! A very kind, cordial, brotherly letter arrives from my
dear James. An idea of comfort begins to steal its way to my
mind, in renewing my intercourse with this worthy brother, who
feels for me, I see, with sincerity and affection.
Sept. 5.-A letter from dowager Lady Harcourt, on the visibly
approaching dissolution of my dear honoured royal mistress !
written by desire of my beloved Princess Mary, Duchess of
Gloucester, to save me the shock of surprise, added to that of
grief.
Sunday, Sept. 6.-A fresh renewal to me of woe is every returning
week ! The eighteenth this of the dread solitude of my heart ;
and miserably, has it passed, augmenting sorrow weighing it in
the approaching loss of my dear queen!
Again I took the Sacrament at the Octagon, probably for the last
time. Oh, how earnest were my prayers for re-union in a purer
world! Prayers were offered for a person lying dangerously ill. I
thought of the queen, and prayed for her fervently.
Sunday, Sept. 27-This day, the twenty-first Sunday of my
bereavement, Alexander, I trust, is ordained a deacon of the
Church of England. Heaven propitiate his entrance! I wrote to the
good Bishop of Salisbury to beseech his pious wishes on this
opening of clerical life.
REMOVAL FROM BATH TO LONDON.
Sept. 28.-Still my preparations to depart from Bath take up all
of time that grief does not seize irresistibly; for, oh! what
anguish overwhelms my soul in quitting the place where last he
saw and blessed me!--the room, the spot on which so softly, so
holily, yet so tenderly, he embraced me and breathed his last!
Sept. 30.-This morning I left Bath with feelings of profound
affliction - yet, reflecting that hope was ever open-- that
future union may repay this laceration--oh, that my torn soul
could more look forward with sacred aspiration! Then better would
it support its weight of woe.
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My dear James received me with tender pity; so did his good wife,
son, and daughter.
Oct. 6.-My dear Alexander left me this morning for Cambridge. How
shall I do, thus parted from both! My kind brother, and his
worthy house, have softened off the day much; yet I sigh for
seclusion--my mind labours under the weight of assumed
sociability.
Oct. 8. I came this evening to my new and probably last dwelling,
No. 11, Bolton-street, Piccadilly. My kind James conducted me.
Oh, how heavy is my forlorn heart ! I have made myself very busy
all day ; so only could I have supported this first opening to my
baleful desolation ! No adored husband! No beloved son ! But
the latter is only at Cambridge. Ah! let me struggle to think
more of the other, the first, the chief, as also only removed
from my sight by a transitory journey!
Oct. 14.-Wrote to my--erst--dearest friend, Mrs. Piozzi. I can
never forget my long love for her, and many obligations to her
friendship, strangely as she had been estranged since her
marriage.
Oct. 30.-A letter from my loved Madame de Maisonneuve, full of
feeling, sense, sweetness, information to beguile me back to
life, and of sympathy to open my sad heart to friendship.
Nov. 7.-A visit from the excellent Harriet Bowdler, who gave me
an hour of precious society, mingling her commiserating sympathy
with hints sage and right of the duty of revival from every
stroke of heaven.
Oh, my God, Saviour! To thee may I turn more and more.
DEATH OF THE QUEEN: SKETCH OF HER CHARACTER.(331)
Nov. 17-This day, at one o'clock, breathed her last the
inestimable Queen of England.(332) Heaven rest and bless her
soul!
Her understanding was of the best sort ; for while it endued her
with powers to form a judgment of all around her, it pointed out
to her the fallibility of appearances, and thence kept her always
open to conviction where she had been led by circumstances into
mistake.
>From the time of my first entrance into her household her manner
to me was most kind and encouraging, for she had
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formed her previous opinion from the partial accounts of my
beloved Mrs. Delany. She saw that, impressed with real respect
for her character, and never-failing remembrance of her rank, she
might honour me with confidence without an apprehension of
imprudence, invite openness without incurring freedom, and
manifest kindness without danger of encroachment. . . .
When I was alone with her she discarded all royal constraint, all
stiffness, all formality, all pedantry of grandeur, to lead me to
speak to her with openness and ease; but any inquiries which she
made in our tte-
-ttes never awakened an idea of prying into
affairs, diving into secrets, discovering views, intentions, or
latent wishes, or amuses. No,. she was above all such minor
resources for attaining intelligence; what she desired to know
she asked openly, though cautiously if of grave matters, and
playfully if of mere news or chit-chat, but always beginning
with, "If there is any reason I should not be told, or any that
you should not tell, don't answer me." Nor were these words of
course, they were spoken with such visible sincerity, that I have
availed myself of them fearlessly, though never without regret,
as it was a delight to me to be explicit and confidential in
return for her condescension. But whenever she saw a question
painful, or that it occasioned even hesitation, she promptly and
generously started some other subject.
Dec. 2.-The queen, the excellent exemplary queen, was this day
interred in the vault of her royal husband's ancestors,(133) to
moulder like his subjects, bodily into dust; but mentally, not
so! She will live in the memory of those who knew her best, and
be set up as an example even by those who only after her death
know, or at least acknowledge her virtues.
I heard an admirable sermon on her departure and her character
from Mr. Repton in St. James's church. I wept the whole time, as
much from gratitude and tenderness to hear her thus appreciated
as from grief at her loss--to me a most heavy one! for she was
faithfully, truly, and solidly attached to me, as I to her.
Dec. 12.-A letter from the Duchess of Gloucester,(134) to My
equal gratification and surprise. She has deigned to answer my
poor condolence the very moment, as she says, that she
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received it. Touched to the heart, but no longer with pleasure
in any emotion, I wept abundantly.
MADAME D'ARBLAY'S SON IS ORDAINED.
Sunday, April 11, 1818.-This morning my dearest Alexander was
ordained a priest by the Bishop of Chester in St. James's church.
I went thither with my good Eliz. Ramsay, and from the gallery
witnessed the ceremony. Fifty-two were ordained at the same time.
I fervently pray to God that my son may meet this his decided
calling with a disposition and conduct to sanction its choice !
and with virtues to merit his noble father's name and exemplary
character! Amen Amen!
WITH some ROYAL HIGHNESSES.
July 15-A message from H. R. H. Princess Augusta, with whom I
passed a morning as nearly delightful as any, now, can be! She
played and sang to me airs of her own composing-unconscious,
medley reminiscences, but very pretty, and prettily executed. I
met the Duke of York, who greeted me most graciously- saying, as
if with regret, how long it was since he had seen me.
In coming away, I met, in the corridor, my sweet Duchess of
Gloucester, who engaged me for next Sunday to herself.
July 26.-Her royal highness presented me to the duke, whom I
found well-bred, Polite, easy, unassuming, and amiable; kind, not
condescending.
QUEEN CAROLINE.
(Madame d"Arblay to Mrs. Locke.)
Wednesday, June 7, 1820. . . .
All London now is wild about the newly arrived royal
traveller.(135) As she is in this neighbourhood, our part of the
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town is surprised and startled every other hour by the arrival of
some new group of the curious rushing on to see her and her
'squire the alderman, at their balcony. Her 'squire, also, now
never comes forth unattended by a vociferous shouting multitude.
I suppose Augusta, who resides still nearer to the dame and the
'squire of dames, is recreated in this lively way yet more
forcibly.
The 15th of this month is to be kept as king's birthday at Court.
Orders have been issued to the princesses to that effect, and to
tell them they must appear entirely out of mourning. They had
already made up dresses for half mourning, of white and black. I
should not marvel if the royal traveller should choose to enter
the apartments, and offer her congratulations upon the festival.
(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Locke.)
Elliot Vale, London, August 15, 1820.
How long it seems--"Seems, madam! nay, it is!
since I have heard from my most loved friend!--I have had,
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however, I thank heaven, news of her, and cheering news, though I
have lost sight of both her dear daughters. . . .
We are all, and of all classes, all opinions, all ages, and all
parties, absolutely absorbed by the expectation of Thursday. The
queen has passed the bottom of our street twice this afternoon in
an open carriage, with Lady Ann(336) and Alderman Wood!-How very
inconceivable that among so many adherents, she can find that
only esquire!-And why she should have any, in her own carriage
and in London, it is not easy to say. There is a universal alarm
for Thursday.(337) the letter to the king breathes battle direct
to both Houses of Parliament as much as to his majesty. Mr.
Wilberforce is called upon, and looked up to, as the only man in
the dominions to whom an arbitration should belong. Lord John
Russell positively asserts that it is not with Lord Castlereagh
and the ministers that conciliation or non-conciliation hangs,
but with Mr. Wilberforce and his circle. If I dared hope such was
the case, how much less should I be troubled by the expectance
awakened for to-morrow--it is now Wednesday that I finish my poor
shabby billet. Tremendous is the general alarm at this moment for
the accused turns accuser, public and avowed, of King, Lords, and
Commons, declaring she will submit to no award of any of them.
What would she say should evidence be imperfect or wanting, and
they should acquit her?
It is, however, open war, and very dreadful, She really invokes a
revolution in every paragraph of her letter to her sovereign and
lord and husband. I know not what sort of conjugal rule will be
looked for by the hitherto lords and masters of the world, if
this conduct is abetted by them. . . .
The heroine passed by the bottom of our street yesterday, in full
pomp and surrounded with shouters and vociferous admirers. She
now dresses superbly every day, and has always six horses and an
open carriage. She seems to think now she has no chance but from
insurrection, and therefore all her harangues invite it. Oh Dr.
Parr!--how my poor brother would have blushed for him! he makes
those orations
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with the aid of Cobbett!--and the council, I suppose. Of course,
like Croaker in "The Good-natured Man" I must finish with "I wish
we may all be well this day three months!"
GOSSIP FROM AN OLD FRIEND, AND THE REPLY.
(From Mrs. Piozzi to Madame d'Arblay.)
Bath, October 20.
It was very gratifying, dear madam, to find myself so kindly
remembered, and with all my heart I thank you for your letter. My
family are gone to Sandgate for the purpose of bathing in the
sea, this wonderfully beautiful October ; and were you not
detained in London by such a son as I hear you are happy in, I
should wish you there too, Apropos to October, I have not your
father's admirable verses upon that month ; those upon June, I
saw when last in Wales could you get me the others ? it would be
such a favour and you used to like them best.
How changed is the taste of verse, prose, and painting since le
bon vieux temps, dear madam! Nothing attracts us but what
terrifies, and is within--if within--a hair's breadth of positive
disgust. The picture of Death on his Pale Horse, however, is very
grand certainly-and some of the strange things they write remind
me of Squoire Richard's visit to the Tower Menagerie, when he
says "Odd, they are pure grim devils,"--particularly a wild and
hideous tale called Frankenstein. Do you ever see any of the
friends we used to live among? Mrs. Lambert is yet alive, and in
prosperous circumstances ; and Fell, the bookseller in
Bond-street, told me a fortnight or three weeks ago, that Miss
Streatfield lives where she did in his neighbourhood,--
Clifford-street, S. S. still.
Old Jacob and his red night-cap are the only live creatures, as
an Irishman would say, that come about me of those you remember,
and death alone will part us,-he and I both lived longer with Mr.
Piozzi than we had done with Mr. Thrale.
Archdeacon Thomas is, I think, the only friend you and I have now
quite in common : he gets well ; and if there was hope of his
getting clear from entanglement, he would be young again,-he is a
valuable mortal.
Adieu! Leisure for men of business, you know, and business for
men of leisure, would cure many complaints.
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Once more, farewell ! and accept my thanks for your good-natured
recollection of poor H. L. P.
(Madame d'Arblay. to Mrs. Piozzi-)
Bolton-street, December 15, 1820.
Now at last, dear madam, with a real pen I venture to answer your
kind acceptance of my Bath leave-taking address, of a date I
would wish you to forget-but the letter is before me, and has no
other word I should like to relinquish. But more of grief at the
consequence of my silence, namely your own, hangs upon the
circumstance than shame, for i have been so every way
unwell,-unhinged, shattered, and unfitted for any correspondence
that could have a chance of reciprocating pleasure, that perhaps
I ought rather to demand your thanks than your pardon for this
delay. I will demand, however, which you please, so you will but
tell me which you will grant, for then I shall hear from you
again.
I must, nevertheless, mention, that my first intention, upon
reading the letter with which you favoured me, was to forward to
you the verses on October, of my dear father, which you honoured
with so much approbation .- but I have never been able to find
them, unless you mean the ode, written in that month, on the
anniversary of his marriage with my mother-in-law, beginning:--
Hail, eldest offspring of the circling year,
October! bountiful, benign, and clear,
Whose gentle reign, from all excesses free,
Gave birth to Stella--happiness to me."
If it be this, I will copy it out with the greatest alacrity, for
the first opportunity of conveyance.
So here, again, like the dun of a dinner card, I entitle myself
to subjoin "An answer is required." . . .
You inquire if I ever see any of the friends we used to live
amongst :-almost none; but I may resume some of those old ties
this winter, from the ardent desire of my son. I have, till very
lately, been so utterly incapable to enjoy society, that I have
held it as much kindness to others as to myself, to keep wholly
out of its way. I am now, in. health, much better, and
consequently more able to control the murmuring propensities that
were alienating me from the purposes of life while yet
living,-this letter, indeed, will show that I am
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restored to the wish, at least, of solace, and that the native
cheerfulness of my temperament is opening from the weight of
sadness by which I had long believed it utterly demolished. But
Time, " uncalled, unheeded, unawares, "-works as secretly upon
our spirits as upon our years, and gives us as little foresight
into what we can endure, as into how long we shall exist. . . .
MORE Gossip.
(From Mrs. Piozzi to Madame d'Arblay.)
Penzance, Thursday, January 18, 1821.
Dear Madame d'Arblay was very considerate in giving me something
to answer, for something original to say would be difficult to
find at Penzance; but your letter has no date, and I am not sure
that Bolton-street is sufficient. Poor Mrs. Byron, who used to
inhabit it, would have enjoyed her grandson's(338) reputation,
would not she? had it pleased God to lengthen her life like that
of Mrs. Lambart, who died only last week, but a few days short of
her expected centenary-as did Fontenelle. You are truly
fortunate, dear madam, so was your father, in leaving those
behind who knew and could appreciate your merits--every scrap
will properly be valued--but those verses belong not to the
October I meant. . . .
Mrs. Bourdois and her sisters--all true Burneys--will be angry I
don't live wholly at Bath, and their society would prove a strong
temptation; but Bath is too much for me, who am now unwilling to
encounter either crowds or solitude: I feared neither for
three-score years of my life, and earnestly now join my too
disinterested solicitations to those of your son, that you will
no longer bury your charming talents in seclusion. Sorrow, as
Dr. Johnson said, is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will
cleanse and brighten it.
You recollect the --'s; Fanny married Sir Something --, and is a
widowed mother. The young man, of whom high expectations were
formed, took to the gaming table, forged for 5000 pounds, and was
saved out of prison by the dexterity of his servant:--a complete
coup de thtre. That I call sorrow scarce possible to be borne.
You saw the story in the newspapers, but possibly were not aware
who was the sufferer.
Will it amuse you to hear that "fine Mr. Daniel," as you
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used to call my showy butler, died an object of disgust and
horror, whilst old Jacob, with whose red nightcap you comically
threatened the gay dandy--lived till the other day, and dying,
left 800 pounds behind him! Such stuff is this world made of!
The literary world is to me terra incognita, far more deserving
of the name (now Parry and Ross are returned) than any part of
the polar region; but the first voyage amused me most and when I
had seen red snow, and heard of men who wanted our sailors to
fly, because they perceived they could swim, I really thought it
time to lie down and die; but one cannot die when one will, so I
have hung half on, half off, society this last half year; and
begin 1821 by thanking dear Madame d'Arblay for her good-natured
recollection of poor H. L. Piozzi.
ILL-HEALTH OF THE REV. A. D'ARBLAY. DR. BURNEY'S MSS.
(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Piozzi.)
Bolton-street, Berkeley-square, Feb. 6, 1821.
You would be repaid, dear madam, if I still, as I believe, know
you, for the great kindness of your prompt answer, had you
witnessed the satisfaction with which it was received ; even at a
time of new and dreadful solicitude; for my son returned from
Cambridge unwell, and in a few days after his arrival at home was
seized with a feverish cold which threatened to fasten upon the
whole system of his existence, not with immediate danger, but
with a perspective to leave but small openings to any future view
of health, strength, or longevity. I will not dwell upon this
period, but briefly say, it seems passed over. He is now, I thank
heaven, daily reviving, and from looking like-not a walking, but
a creeping spectre, he is gaining force, spirit, and flesh
visibly, and almost hour by hour; still, however, he requires the
utmost attention, and the more from the extreme insouciance, from
being always absorbed in some mental combinations, with which he
utterly neglects himself. I am therefore wholly devoted to
watching him.
I am quite vexed not to find the right October. However, I do not
yet despair, for in the multitude of MSS. that have fallen to my
mournfully surviving lot to select, or destroy, etc., chaos seems
come again; and though I have worked at them during the last year
so as to obtain a little light, it is scarcely
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more than darkness visible. To all the vast mass left to my
direction by my dear father, who burnt nothing, not even an
invitation to dinner, are added not merely those that devolved to
me by fatal necessity in 1818, but also all the papers possessed
from her childhood to her decease of that sister you so well,
dear madam, know to have been my heart's earliest darling. When
on this pile are heaped the countless hoards which my own now
long life has gathered together, of my personal property, such as
it is, and the correspondence of my family and my friends, and
innumerable incidental windfalls, the whole forms a body that
might make a bonfire to illuminate me nearly from hence to
Penzance. And such a bonfire might perhaps be not only the
shortest, but the wisest way to dispose of such materials. This
enormous accumulation has been chiefly owing to a long unsettled
home, joined to a mind too deeply occupied by immediate affairs
and feelings to have the intellect at liberty for retrospective
investigations. . . .
A LAST GOSSIPING LETTER.
(From Mrs. Piozzi to Madame d'Arblay.)
Sion Row, Clifton, near Bristol, March 15, 1821.
I feel quite happy in being able to reply to dear Madame
d'Arblay's good-natured inquiries, from this, the living world.
Such we cannot term Penzance--not with propriety--much like Omai,
who said to you, "No mutton there, missee, no fine coach, no
clock upon the stairs," etc.; but en revanche here is no Land's
End, no submarine mine of Botallock! What a wonderful thing is
that extensive cavern ! stretching out half a mile forward under
the roaring ocean, from whence 'tis protected only by a slight
covering, a crust of rock, which, if by any accident exploded,
"Would let in light on Pluto's dire abodes,
Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to Gods."
Plutus, however, not Pluto, is professed proprietor - 'tis an
immense vacuity filled with the vapours of tin and copper,
belonging to Lord Falmouth and a company of miners, where sixty
human beings work night and day, and hear the waves over their
heads , sometimes regularly beating the Cornish cliffs, sometimes
tossing the terrified mariner upon the inhospitable shore; where
shipwreck is, even in these civilized days, considered as a
Godsend.
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I am glad I saw it, and that I shall see it no more. You would
not know poor Streatham Park. I have been forced to dismantle and
forsake it; the expenses of the present time treble those of the
moments you remember; and since giving up my Welsh estate, my
income is greatly diminished. I fancy this will be my last
residence in this world, meaning Clifton, not Sion Row, where I
only live till my house in the Crescent is ready for me. A high
situation is become necessary to my breath, and this air will
agree with me better than Bath did.
You ask how the Pitches family went on. Jane married a rough man,
quarter-master to a marching regiment, and brought him three
sons: the first a prodigy of science, wit, and manners; he died
early: the second I know nothing of: the third, a model of grace
and beauty, married the Duke of Marlborough's sister. Peggy is
Countess Coventry, you know, and has a numerous progeny. Emily is
wife to Mr. Jolliffe, M.P. for some place, I forget what.
Penelope married Sir John Sheffield, but died before he came to
the title. I dined with them all last time I was in London, at
Coventry House. Poor old Davies's departure grieved me, so did
that of good Mr. Embry; au reste, the village of Streatham is
full of rich inhabitants, the common much the worse for being so
spotted about with houses, and the possibility of avoiding
constant intercourse with their inhabitants (as in Mr. Thrale's
time) wholly lost!.....
DEATH OF MRS. PIOZZI.
May, 1821.--I have lost now, just lost, my once most dear,
intimate, and admired friend, Mrs. Thrale Piozzi,(339) who
preserved her fine faculties, her imagination, her intelligence,
her powers of allusion and citation, her extraordinary memory,
and her almost unexampled vivacity, to the last of her existence.
She was in her eighty-second year, and yet owed not her death to
age nor to natural decay, but to the effects of a fall in a
journey from Penzance to Clifton. On her eightieth birthday she
gave a great ball, concert, and supper, in the public rooms at
Bath, to upwards of two hundred persons, and the ball she opened
herself. She was, in truth, a most wonderful character for
talents and eccentricity, for wit, genius, generosity, spirit,
and powers of entertainment.
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MRS. PIOZZI COMPARED WITH MADAME DE STAEL.
She had a great deal both of good and not good, in common with
Madame de Stael Holstein. They had the same sort of highly
superior intellect, the same depth of learning, the same general
acquaintance with science, the same ardent love of literature,
the same thirst for universal knowledge, and the same buoyant
animal spirits, such as neither sickness, sorrow, nor even
terror, could subdue. Their conversation was equally luminous,
from the sources of their own fertile minds, and from their
splendid acquisitions from the works and acquirements of others.
Both were zealous to serve, liberal to bestow, and graceful to
oblige; and both were truly highminded in prizing and praising
whatever was admirable that came in their way.
Neither of them was delicate nor polished, though each was
flattering and caressing; but both had a fund inexhaustible of
good humour, and of sportive gaiety, that made their intercourse
with those they wished to please attractive, instructive, and
delightful and though not either of them had the smallest
real malevolence in their compositions, neither of them could
ever withstand the pleasure of uttering a repartee, let it wound
whom it might, even though each would serve the very person they
goaded with all the means in their power. Both were kind,
charitable, and munificent, and therefore beloved; both were
sarcastic, careless, and daring, and therefore feared. The
morality of Madame de Stael was by far the most faulty, but so
was the society to which she belonged so were the general manners
of those by whom she was encircled.
SISTER HETTY.
(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Burney.)
October 21, 1821.
"Your mind," my dearest Esther, was always equal to literary
pursuits, though your time seems only now to let you enjoy them.
I have often thought that had our excellent and extraordinary own
mother been allowed longer life, she would have contrived to make
you sensible of this sooner. I do not mean in a common way, for
that has never failed, but in one striking and distinguished ;
for she very early indeed began to form your taste for reading,
and delighted
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to find time, amidst all her cares, to guide you to the best
authors, and to read them with you, commenting and pointing out
passages worthy to be learned by heart.
I perfectly recollect, child as I was, and never of the party,
this part of your education. At that very juvenile period, the
difference even of months makes a marked distinction in bestowing
and receiving instruction. I, also, was so peculiarly backward,
that even our Susan stood before me; she could read when I knew
not my letters. But though so sluggish to learn, I was always
observant: do you remember Mr. Seaton's denominating me, at
fifteen, "the silent, observant Miss Fanny"? Well I recollect
your reading with our dear mother all Pope's works and Pitt's
"AEneid." I recollect, also, your spouting passages from Pope,
that I learned from hearing you recite them before--many years
before I read them myself. But after you lost, so young, that
incomparable guide, you had none left. Our dear -father was
always abroad, usefully or ornamentally; and, after giving you a
year in Paris with the best masters that could be procured, you
came home at fifteen or sixteen to be exclusively occupied by
musical studies, save for the interludes that were
"Sacred to dress and beauty's pleasing cares:"
for so well you played, and so lovely you looked, that admiration
followed alike your fingers and your smiles : and the pianoforte
and the world divided your first youth, which, had that exemplary
guide been spared us, I am fully persuaded would have left some
further testimony of its passage than barely my old journals,
written to myself, which celebrate your wit and talents as highly
as your beauty. And I judge I was not mistaken, by all in which
you have had opportunity to show your mental faculties, i.e. your
letters, which have always been strikingly good and agreeable,
and evidently unstudied.
When Alex comes home I will try to get "Crabbe," and try to hear
it with pleasure. The two lines you have quoted are very
touching.
Thus much, my dear Etty, i wrote on the day I received your last;
but . . . .
November.-I write now from Eliot Vale, under the kind and elegant
roof of sweet Mrs. Locke, who charges me with her most
affectionate remembrances. Perhaps I may meet here with your
favourite Crabbe: as I subscribe to no library, I know not how
else I shall get at him. I thank you a
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thousand times for the good bulletin of your health, my dearest
Esther; and I know how kindly you will reciprocate my
satisfaction when I tell you mine is inconceivably ameliorated,
moyennant great and watchful care: and Alex keeps me to that with
the high hand of peremptory insistence, according to the taste of
the times for the "rising generation" expects just as much
obedience to orders as they withhold. If you were to hear the
young gentleman delivering to me his lectures on health, and
dilating upon air, exercise, social intercourse, and gay spirits,
you would be forced to seek a magnifying glass to believe that
your eyes did not deceive you, but that it was really your nephew
haranguing his mother. However, we must pass by the exhorting
impetuosity, in favour of the zealous anxiety that fires it up in
his animated breast.
OFFICIAL DUTIES TEMPORARILY RESUMED.
I was kept in town by a particular circumstance--I might say,
like the play-bills, by particular desire; for it was a fair
royal personage who condescended to ask me to remit my visit to
Eliot Vale, that I might attend her sittings for her picture, her
two ladies being at that time absent on cong. You may believe
how much I was gratified, because you know my sincere and truly
warm attachment for all those gracious personages; but you may be
surprised Your poor sister could now be pitched upon, where so
much choice must always be at hand, for whiling away the
tediousness of what she, the princess, calls the odious
occupation of sitting still for this exhibition - but the fact
is, I was able to fulfil her views better than most people could,
in defiance of my altered spirits and depressed faculties, by
having recourse simply to my memory in relating things I saw, or
heard, or did, during the long ten years, and the eventful--added
one year more, that I spent abroad. Only to name Bonaparte in
any positive trait that I had witnessed or known, was sufficient
to make her open her fine eyes in a manner extremely advantageous
to the painter.
THE Rev. A. D'ARBLAY NAMED LENT PREACHER.
(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Burney.)
February 29, 1823.
.....Thanks for that kind jump of joy for the success of Alex at
Lee, and for my hopes from St. Paul's. You ask who
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named him preacher for the 5th Sunday in Lent: How could I omit
telling you 'twas the Bishop of London himself? -This has been
brought about by a detail too long for paper, but it is chiefly
to my faithful old friends Bishop Fisher of Salisbury and the
Archdeacon of Middlesex that we owe this mark of attention; for
Alex has never been presented to the Bishop of London.
MADAME D'ARBLAY'S HEALTH AND OCCUPATION.
You still ask about my health, etc. I thought the good result
would have sufficed ; but thus stands the detail : I was packing
up a board of papers to carry with me to Richmond, many months
now ago, and employed above an hour, bending my head over the
trunk, and on my knees -when, upon meaning to rise, I was seized
with a giddiness, a glare of sparks before my eyes, and a
torturing pain on one side of my head, that nearly disabled me
from quitting my posture, and that was followed, when at last I
rose, by an inability to stand or walk.
My second threat of seizure was at Eliot Vale, while Alex was at
Tunbridge. I have been suddenly taken a third time, in the
middle of the night, with a seizure as if a hundred windmills
were turning round in my head: in short,-I had now recourse to
serious medical help, and, to come to the sum total, I am now so
much better that I believe myself to be merely in the common road
of such gentle, gradual decay as, I humbly trust, I have been
prepared to meet with highest hope, though with deepest awe--for
now many years back.
The chief changes, or reforms, from which I reap benefit are,
1st. Totally renouncing for the evenings all revision or
indulgence in poring over those letters and papers whose contents
come nearest to my heart, and work upon its bleeding regrets.
Next, transferring-to the evening, as far as is in my power, all
of sociality, with Alex, or my few remaining friends, or the few
he will present to me of new ones. 3rd. Constantly going out
every day-either in brisk walks in the morning, or in brisk
jumbles in the carriage of one of my three friends who send for
me, to a tte-
-tte tea converse. 4th. Strict attention to diet.
. . .
I ought to have told you the medical sentence upon which I act.
These were the words--"You have a head over-worked, and a heart
over-loaded." This produces a disposition to
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fulness in both that causes stagnation, etc., with a consequent
want of circulation at the extremities, that keeps them cold and
aching. Knowing this, I now act upon it as warily as I am able.
The worst of all is, that I have lost, totally lost, my pleasure
in reading! except when Alex is my lecturer, for whose sake my
faculties are still alive to what--erst! gave them their greatest
delight. But alone; I have no longer that resource; I have
scarcely looked over a single sentence, but some word of it
brings to my mind some mournful recollection, or acute regret,
and takes from one all attention--my eyes thence glance vainly
over pages that awaken no ideas.--This is melancholy in the
extreme; yet I have tried every species of writing and writer--
but all pass by me mechanically, instead Of instructing or
entertaining me intellectually. But for this sad deprivation of
my original taste, my evenings might always be pleasing and
reviving--but alas!
DESTROYED CORRESPONDENCE.
(Madame d'Arblay to Mrs. Burney.)
August, 1823.
What an interesting letter is this last, my truly dear Hetty 'tis
a real sister's letter, and such a one as I am at this time
frequently looking over of old times! For the rest of my life I
shall take charge' and save my own executor the discretionary
labours that with myself are almost endless ; for I now regularly
destroy all letters that either may eventually do mischief,
however clever, or that contain nothing of instruction or
entertainment, however innocent. This, which I announce to all
my correspondents who write confidentially, occasions my
receiving letters that are real conversations. Were I younger I
should consent to this condition with great reluctance-or perhaps
resist it : but such innumerable papers, letters, documents, and
memorandums have now passed through my hands, and, for reasons
prudent, or kind, or conscientious, have been committed to the
flames, that I should hold it wrong to make over to any other
judgment than My Own, the danger or the innoxiousness of any and
every manuscript that has been cast into my power. To you,
therefore, I may now safely copy a charge delivered to me by UP
our dear vehement Mr. Crisp, at the opening of my juvenile
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correspondence with him,--"Harkee, you little monkey!--dash away
whatever comes uppermost; if you stop to consider either what you
say, or what may be said of you, I would not ,give one fig for
your letters."--How little, in those days, did either he or I
fear, or even dream of the press! What became of letters, jadis,
I know not; but they were certainly both written and received
with as little fear as wit. Now every body seems -obliged to
take as much care of their writing desks as of their trinkets or
purses,-for thieves be abroad of more descriptions than belong to
the penniless pilferers.
THE PRINCESS AND THE REV. A. D'ARBLAY.
(Madame dArblay to Mrs. locke.)
11 Bolton-street, Nov. 1824.
Now then for a more cheerful winding-up. I came from Camden Town
very unwillingly,--but Alex was called to Cambridge to an audit,
and so I took that opportunity to make a break-up. But the day
before I quitted it I received the highest resident honour that
can be bestowed upon me--namely, a visit from one of my dear and
condescending princesses. She came by appointment,-yet her
entrance was so quick that Alex had not time to save
himself.-However, she took the incident not only without
displeasure but with apparent satisfaction, saying she was very
glad to renew her acquaintance with him. She had not seen him
since the time of his spouting, "The spacious firmament on
high"--"Ye shepherds so cheerful and gay," etc.,--all of which
she remembers hearing. Ah--I have never recollected till this
instant that I ought to have gone to her the next day !-how
shocking!--and now that I have the consciousness, I can do
nothing, for I am lame from a little accident.--Well!--she is all
goodness-and far more prone to forgive than I, I trust, am to
offend.
A VISIT FROM SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Although Madame d'Arblay's intercourse with society was now
usually confined to that of her relations and of old and
established friends, she yet greeted with admiration and pleasure
Sir Walter Scott, who was brought to her by Mr. Rogers. Sir
Walter, in his Diary for Nov. 18th, 1826, thus
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describes the visit:--"I have been introduced to Madame d'Arblay,
the celebrated authoress of 'Evelina' and 'Cecilia,' an elderly
lady with no remains of personal beauty, but with a simple and
gentle manner, and pleasing expression of countenance, and
apparently quick feelings. She told me she had wished to see two
persons-myself, of course, being one, the other, George Canning.
This was really a compliment to be pleased with--a nice little
handsome pat of butter made up by a neat-handed Phillis of a
dairy-maid, instead of the grease fit only for cartwheels which
one is dosed with by the pound.
"I trust I shall see this lady again."
MEMOIRS OF DR. BURNEY.
>From the year 1828 to 1832 Madame d'Arblay was chiefly occupied
in preparing for the press the Memoirs of her father; and on
their publication, she had the pleasure to receive letters from
Dr. Jebb, Bishop of Limerick, and from Mr. Southey, the poet.
Among the less favourable criticisms of her work, the Only one
which gave Madame d'Arblay serious pain was an attack (in a
periodical publication) upon her veracity--a quality which, in
her, Dr. Johnson repeatedly said "he had never found failing,"
and for which she had been through life trusted, honoured, and
emulated.
DEATHS OF HESTER BURNEY AND MRS. LOCKE.
(1835 to 1838.)
Madame d'Arblay's letters were now very few. - A complaint in one
of her eyes, which was expected to terminate in a cataract, made
both reading and writing difficult to her. The number of her
correspondents had also been painfully lessened by the death of
her eldest sister, Mrs. Burney, and that of her beloved friend,
Mrs. Locke ; and she had sympathised with other branches of her
family in many similar afflictions, for she retained in a
peculiar degree not only her intellectual powers, but the warn)
and generous affections of her youth.
"Though now her eightieth year was past," she took her wonted and
vivid interest in the concerns, the joys, and sorrows of those
she loved.
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DEATH OF THE REV. A. D'ARBLAY.
At this time her son formed an attachment which promised to
secure his happiness, and to gild his mother's remaining days
with affection and peace : and at the close of the year 1836 he
was nominated minister of Ely chapel, which afforded her
considerable satisfaction. But her joy was mournfully
short-lived. That building, having been shut for some years, was
damp and ill-aired. The Rev. Mr. d'Arblay began officiating there
in winter, and during the first days of his ministry he caught
the influenza, which became so serious an illness as to require
the attendance of two physicians. Dr. Holland and Dr. Kingston
exerted their united skill with the kindest interest; but their
patient, never robust, was unable to cope with the malady, and on
the 19th of January, 1837, in three weeks from his first seizure,
the death of this beloved son threw Madame d'Arblay again into
the depths of affliction. Yet she bore this desolating stroke
with religious submission, receiving kindly every effort made to
console her, and confining chiefly to her own private memoranda
the most poignant expressions of her anguish and regret, as also
of the deeply religious trust by which she was supported.
The following paragraph is taken from her private notebook:--
"1837.-On the opening of this most mournful--most earthly
hopeless, of any and of all the years yet commenced of my long
career! Yet, humbly I bless my God and Saviour, not hopeless; but
full of gently-beaming hopes, countless and fraught with
aspirations of the time that may succeed to the dread infliction
of this last irreparable privation, and bereavement of my darling
loved, and most touchingly loving, dear, soul--dear Alex."
DEATH OF MADAME D'ARBLAY'S SISTER CHARLOTTE.
Much as Madame d'Arblay had been tried by the severest penalty of
lengthened days, the loss of those who were dearest to her, *one
more such sorrow remained in her cup of life. Her gentle and
tender sister Charlotte, many years younger than herself, was to
precede her in that eternal world for which they were both
preparing; and in the autumn of the year 1838, a short illness
terminated in the removal of that beloved sister.
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ILLNESS AND DEATH OF MADAME D'ARBLAY.
(1839-40.)
Madame d'Arblay's long and exemplary life was now drawing to a
close; her debility increased, her sight and hearing nearly
failed her; but in these afflictions she was enabled to look
upwards with increasing faith and resignation. In a letter on the
5th of March, 1839, she wrote the following paragraph,(340) which
was perhaps the last ever traced by her pen :--
"March 5, 1839.
"Ah, my dearest! how changed, changed I am, since the irreparable
loss of your beloved mother! that last original tie to native
original affections! . . .
"Wednesday.-I broke off, and an incapable unwillingness seized my
pen; but I hear you are not well, and I hasten--if that be a word
I can ever use again--to make personal Inquiry how you are.
"I have been very ill, very little apparently, but with nights of
consuming restlessness and tears. I have now called in Dr.
Holland, who understands me marvellously, and I am now much as
usual; no, not that--still tormented by nights without repose--
but better.
"My spirits have been dreadfully saddened of late by whole days-
-nay weeks--of helplessness for any employment. They have but
just revived. How merciful a reprieve! How merciful IS ALL we
know! The ways of Heaven are not dark and intricate, but unknown
and unimagined till the great teacher, Death, develops them."
In November, 1839, Madame d'Arblay was attacked by an illness
which showed itself at first in sleepless nights and nervous
imaginations. Spectral illusions, such as Dr. Abercrombie has
described, formed part of her disorder; and though after a time
Dr. Holland's skill removed these nervous impressions, yet her
debility and cough increased, accompanied by constant fever. For
several weeks hopes of her recovery were entertained; her
patience assisted the remedies of her kind physician , and the
amiable young friend, " who was to her as a daughter," watched
over her with unremitting care and attention but she became more
and more feeble,
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and her mind wandered ; though at times every day she was
composed and collected, and then given up to silent prayer, with
her hands clasped and eyes uplifted.
During the earlier part of her illness she had listened with
comfort to some portions of St. John's Gospel, but she now said
to her niece, "I would ask you to read to me, but I could not
understand one word--not a syllable! but I thank God my mind has
not waited till this time."
At another moment she charged the same person with affectionate
farewells and blessings to several friends, and with thanks for
all their kindness to her. Soon after she said, "I have had some
sleep." "That is well," was the reply; "you wanted rest." "I
shall have it soon, my dear," she answered emphatically: and
thus, aware that death was approaching, in peace with all the
world, and in holy trust and reliance on her Redeemer, she
breathed her last on the 6th of January, 1840 ; the anniversary
of that day she had long consecrated to prayer, and to the memory
of her beloved sister Susanna.
(330) Her departure for Germany with her husband, the Prince of
Hesse-Homburg, to whom she had been recently married.-ED. '
(331) From a Memorandum book of Madame d'Arblays.
(332) Queen Charlotte died at the palace at Kew, in the
seventy-fifth year of her age, after an illness of six
months.-ED.
(133) At Windsor.-ED.
(134) The Princess Mary, who had married her cousin, the Duke of
Gloucester.-ED.
(135) Queen Caroline. George IV. was now king, George III. having
died January 29, 1820. A brief account of the life of Queen
Caroline may be of assistance to the reader. Her father was the
Duke of Brunswick: her mother a sister of George II. She was
born in 1768, and married her cousin, the Prince of Wales, in
April, 1795, A speedy estrangement followed, brought about by the
prince's intrigues, especially with Lady Jersey; and, after the
birth of their daughter, the Princess Charlotte, a total
separation took place. In 1806 a charge of adultery was brought
against the Princess of Wales. The charge was declared
disproved, but colour had been given to it by the undoubted
levity and imprudence of her conduct. In 1813 she went
abroad, and spent several years in travelling on the continent.
Her behaviour during this period gave rise to fresh charges, from
which she has never been entirely cleared. She returned to
England, June 6, 1820, came to London, and took up her residence
in South Audley-street, at the house of her friend, Alderman
Wood, one of the members of Parliament for the city of London.
Shortly before her return, the king's ministers had proposed to
settle upon her an annuity of -/'50,000 for life, subject to the
conditions of her continuing to reside abroad, and refraining
from assuming the title of queen. This proposal she instantly
rejected. She was received in England by the people with
unbounded enthusiasm, to which the general discontent then
prevailing questionless contributed. A secret committee of the
House of Lords, appointed to examine the charges against the
queen, having made their report, the government brought in a bill
to deprive her of the title of queen, and to dissolve the
marriage. She was defended by counsel before the House of Lords,
her leading advocate being Mr. (afterwards Lord) Brougham, The
Motion for the third reading of the bill passed (November 10) by
a small majority, but the bill was immediately afterwards
abandoned by the government. This proceeding was generally
considered as tantamount to an acquittal, and was celebrated by
illuminations and the voting of congratulatory addresses in all
parts of the country. Queen Caroline did not long enjoy her
triumph. She presented herself at Westminster Abbey on the
occasion of the king's coronation, July 19, 1821, but was refused
admission. Less than three weeks later she was dead.-ED.
(336) Lady Ann Hamilton, who had formerly belonged to Queen
Caroline's household, and had joined her in France, shortly
before her return to England.-ED.
(337) Thursday, August 17, was the day on which the queen's trial
commenced before the House of Lords.-ED.
(338) Lord Byron, the poet.-ED.
(339) Mrs. Piozzi died at Clifton, May 2, 1821, having survived
her second husband about twelve years.-ED.
(340) To her niece Mrs. Barrett.
INDEX
Addington, Dr., attends the king, ii. 262.
Agujari, Lucrezia, vocalist, i. 162.
Aiken, John, M.D., iii. 179.
Akenside, his "Pleasures of Imagination" discussed, ii. 193.
Alexander I. of Russia, iii. 289, 380.
Allen, Mrs. S., marries Dr. Burney, i, xviii.
Althorpe, Lord, i. 176,
Amelia, Princess, her childish ways and sports, 1. 349, 420, 437;
her birthday, 364; 439, 442; ii. 34, 72, 75, 303, 309, 4o6;
her AFFECtion for Fanny, 434; iii. 108, 138, 140, 156, 165;
at Juniper Hall, 180.
Amiens, Fanny's supper at, iii. 319.
Ancaster, Duchess of, i. 350 355, 361, 365, 379, 385, 387,
391, 393-4, 396; ii. 10, 39, 85.
Andrews, Miles, ii. 32.
Angouleme, Duchess d', in London, iii. 276, 281, 291-3;
conversation with Fanny, 295.
Anstey, Christopher, "Evelina" attributed to, i. xxv, 63.
Anstruther, Mr. M.P., ii. 97, 145, 345, 352.
Antwerp, projected flight to, iii. 352.
Arblay, general Alex. d', acount of, i. xliv;
at Juniper Hall, iii. 14, 28-9, 31, 33, 35, 40, 42, 43, 45;
he and Fanny in love, 48, 50, 53, 55, 59, 62;
named to Fanny, 67; 68, 74;
his pursuits, 75, 85;
at Windsor, 99, 102, 105-6;
noticed by George III., 109;
plans Camilla Cottage, 115, 122-3, 154;
his brother's death, 126; 135, 155-6, 171, 192;
his French property, 194;
goes to France, 198;
his military appointment, 203-7;
in Paris, 224-5;
his old comrades, 227;
his relatives, 234;
his pension and property, 241-2; 255, 272, 287;
returns to France, 289;
enters Louis XVIII's bodyguard, 290;
reinstated as maréchal de Camp, 291;
his loyalty, 298;
on the eve of the Hundred Days, 304-8, 311;
reaches Belgium, 337;
his mission to Luxemburg, 339, 342;
his audience with Wellington, 342;
his accident, 369;
joined by Fanny at Treves, 370-7;
returns to England, 383-5;
his affairs and plans, 390;
his failing health, 07, 400, 418, 422-3;
presented to the queen, 424-6;
gradually sinking, 426, 428-32;
his death, 433.
Arblay, Rev. Alexander d', iii. 82, 97, 121, 138, 143, 156-7;
at Court, 163;
presented to the queen, 167;
his precocity, 177, 182, 192, 196;
goes to France, 209;
at Dunkirk, 252;
returns to England, 263;
secures a scholarship, 266, 270;
at Cambridge, 272, 275, 293;
maternal advice to, 365;
his waywardness and prospects, 386, 390-6;
his tutor, 401;
his aversion to study, 403;
his alarm for his mother, 415-8;
at his father's death-bed, 430-3;
at Cambridge, 436;
ordained, 437, 440;
in ill-health, 446;
named Lent preacher, 451;
with one Of the princesses, 454;
his death, 456.
Arblay, Madame d' (Frances Burney),
announces her marriage, iii. 67-70;
loses her stepmother, 71;
her tragedy, "Edwy and Elgiva," 72, 90-4;
her novel, "Camilla," 72, 89, 95-6, 98-112;
birth of her son, 85;
meets Mrs. Piozzi, 88;
presents "Camilla" to royalty, 99-112;
relative success of her novels, 114;
her Camilla Cottage, 115, 122-3;
her opinion of Burke, 126;
visits the queen, 141;
chats with the princesses, 138-40, 140, 153-4;
indignant with Talleyrand, 153;
her little boy at Court, 163;
visits old friends, 172;
with Princess Amelia, 180-3;
her withdrawn comedy, "Love and Fashion," 193;
her anxiety for her husband, 205-7;
goes to France, 208;
to Paris, 215;
her life there, 216;
snubs Mdme. deStael, 220;
at the Tuileries, 224;
sees Napoleon, 232;
at Joigny, 234;
at Passy and Paris, 240-7;
her dangerous illness, 247, 252;
her adventure at Dunkirk, 249;
her return to England, 263;
regrets Mdme. de Stael, 269;
meets S. Rogers, 270;
Wilberforce, 271;
publishes "The Wanderer," 272-3-5;
loses her father, 273-4;
is presented to Louis XVIII., 276;
joined by her husband, 289;
returns to France, 292;
meets Duchess d'Angouleme, 293;
her flight from Paris, 301, 308-27;
her efforts to communicate with her husband, 328;
converses with Chateaubriand, 330-3;
arrives at Brussels, 334;
receives news of d'Arblay, 336-7, 338;
her projected flight to Antwerp, 352;
joins her husband at Treves, 370-7;
returns to France, 378;
her bon mot to Talleyrand, 382;
return to England, 383;
at Bath, 385;
Ilfracombe, 398, 402;
is caught by the rising tide, 4o6-18;
at Bath, 418, 422-37;
her husband's illness, 423;
his death, 432;
her years of widowhood, 434;
her son ordained, 440;
her correspondence with Madame PiOzzi, 443-8;
her health and occupations, 452;
is visited by Sir Walter Scott, 454;
issues the "Memoirs of Dr. Burney," 455;
her son's death, 456;
her illness and death, 458.
Argand, Aimé, i. 405.
Argy, Chevalier d', iii. 346.
Arras, Fanny at, iii. 321.
Arundel, Lord, i. 198.
Auch, Countess d', iii. 313.
Augusta, Princess, i. 339, 342, 360, 362;
her birthday, 365, 375, 385, 387, 409, 439-40; ii. 9, 10;
teased by Turbulent, 26; 32, 34-5, 50, 75, 155, 164, 2o6,
242, 270, 310, 347, 490; iii. 104, 107-8, 138, 146, 156-9,
164, 440.
Aylesbury, Lord, ii. 332, 400; iii. 163.
Aylsham, Fanny at, iii. 37.
Bachmeister, Mlle., successor to Mrs. Schwellenberg, iii. 142,
162, 163.
Baker, Sir George, M.D., attends the king, ii. 222-3, 231-2,
234-5, 250, 263.
Banks, Sir Joseph, ii. 140-1.
Bantry Bay Expedition, iii. 124.
Barbauld, Mr. and Mrs. (the authoress), iii. 178.
Barber, Frank, Johnson's negro, i. 287; iii. 129.
Barclay & Perkins, origin of, i. 203.
Baretti, Joseph, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvi;
admires "Evelina," xxvii, 83;
teases Charlotte Burney, 302;
his wager, 302, 305;
attacks Mrs. Piozzi, ii. 167, 176;
tried for murder, 176.
Barrett, Mrs., i. xi; iii. 457.
Barrington, Lord, at Dr. Burney's, i. Xvii.
Barry, Mr., R. A., at Dr. Burney's, i. xvi;
expelled the Academy, iii. 184.
Bate, Henry, Rev., of the Morning Post and Herald, i. 164.
Bath, Fanny at, i. 165-197 423-9; iii. 385-98, 418, 422-37
Queen Charlotte at, iii. 420.
Bath, Marquis an(l Marchioness of, ii. 330 ;
their family, 331.
Bath Easton, i. 174, 189.
Batt, Mr., ii. 83, 433.
Battiscombe (royal apothecary), i. 293, 446 ; ii. 231, 233.
Beauclerk, Topham and Lady Di., i. 154, 231-2. Beauffiremont, Princess de, iii. 237.
Beaufort, Duke of, ii. 291.
Beauvau, Prince and Princess de, iii. 218, 224-5.
Berry, Agnes and Mary, iii. 219.
Bertie, Lady Charlotte, lady of the bedchamber, i. 365, 385,
390-3; ii. 39.
Betterton, Miss, actress, iii. 149, 157.
Bewley, Mr., and Johnson's hearthbroom, i. xvi.
Birch, Selina, a prodigy, i. 150-3.
Black Brunswickers, the, iii. 347.
Blakeney, General, his disposition and conversation, i. 158-164.
Blandford, Marquis of, i. 387.
Blenheim, royal visit to, i. 397.
Bligh, Captain (afterwards Admiral), ii, 350, 358.
Blucher, Marshal, iii. 342, 345, 358, 364.
Bolt Court, Johnson's home at, i. 95-7, 258, 283-8.
Bonaparte, Jerome, iii. 367.
Bonaparte, Louis, iii. 235.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, and M. d'Arblay, i., x1v;
bon mot of, iii. 200;
and d'Arblay, 207;
at the Tuileries, 231;
returns from Elba, 301, 314;
persecutes Chateaubriand, 333;
his last campaign, 293, 351, 353, 363, 365.
Bookham, Fanny at, iii, 75, et seq.
Boscawen, Hon. Mrs., ii. 83, 291 iii. 98, 100, 133, 173.
Boswell, James, i. 234-5, 319;
his "Life of Dr. Johnson," ii. 377, 400-2;
his mimicry of Johnson, 432.
Bouchier, Captain, i. 179-80, 185-9.
Bouffiers-Rouvrel, Countess de, ii. 368.
Bourget, Le, Fanny's halt at, iii. 315.
Bowdler, Harriet, i. 190-1; iii. 386.
Bowdlers, the, i. 194; ii. 424; iii. 386, 396, 401;
the first chess-player in England, 405, 406.
Boyd, Mr. and Mrs., at Brussels, iii. 343, 352-3, 360.
Boydell, Alderman, ii. 464.
Bremyere, Mrs., iii. 142, 161.
Brighthelmstone (Brighton), Fanny at, i. 112, 133-7, 153-64, 197,
236-9-48.
Brisvane, Captain, i. 185-8.
Broglie, Marshal de, iii. 16;
Madame de, iii. 16, 29, 39.
Broome, Ralph, author of "Simkins' Letters," iii. 133, 167, 176.
Broome, Mrs., see Burney, Charlotte.
Brown, Fanny, an untidy flirt, i. 85-6, 138-9.
Bruce, James, the traveller, i. xvii; ii. 330.
Brudenell, Miss, ii. 126.
Brunswick, army of, iii. 347;
Duke of, his death, 347, 351.
Brussels, Fanny at, iii. 334;
"Rule Britannia" at, 341-2;
Fete-Dieu at, 344;
the inquietude at, 346;
plans for quitting, 350;
aspect of, before and after Waterloo, 351-65.
Bryant, Jacob, i. 402; his eccentric talk, ii. 22-3, 31, 72, 349,
405.
Budé, General, i. 353, 355, 358, 365-6, 416-7, 421, 427, 440-1,
444; ii. 36, 47, 51, 213, 218, 224, 226, 228-9, 245, 341.
Bulkley, Lord, ii. 347.
Buller, Dean, ii. 321.
Bunbury, Henry W., ii. 51, 59, 140, 190-1, 195;
Mrs. (Goldsmith's "Little Comedy"), i. 111.
Burgoyne, General, ii. 120.
Burke, Edmund, praises "Evelina", i. xxvi, 94;
slighted by Fanny, xxxvii;
introduced to Fanny, 230;
on "Cecilia," 232, 252-4;
on Fanny's Court appointment, 290;
/ at the Hastings trial, ii. 92-3, 110, 112, 117;
his speech against Hastings, 121, 128, 134;
at the trial, 125-7, 129-30, 138, 145, 147, 345, 352, 355,
359-61, 363-4, 392, 438, 440, 445, 452;
on the Regency Bill, 351;
on the French Revolution, 371, 377;
on Fanny's treatment at Court, 429;
Reynolds's legacy to, 444;
at Mrs. Crewe's with Fanny, 457-63;
on Fox, 459;
on Windham, 460;
subscribes for "Camilla," iii. 73;
his death and funeral, 125.
Burke, Mrs. Edmund, i. 252, ii. 457, 461.
Burke, Richard, son of Edmund, i. 254, 259; ii. 101, 121, 456;
iii. 44, 89.
Burke, Richard, brother of Edmund, i. 229; ii. 101, 121, 457;
iii. 82.
Burke, William, i. 115-9.
Burney, Charles, Mus. Doc., his early life, marriage, position,
and friends, i. xiii-xvii;
his second marriage, xviii;
authorises the publication of "Evelina," xxiv;
peruses it, xxv, 65-8;
appointed organist at Chelsea, xxxvii;
takes Fanny to Streatham, 75;
visits Reynolds, 115;
meets Murpby, 129;
visits Mrs. Paradise, 224;
dines with Reynolds, 228;
Visits Chesington, 233;
chides Mrs. Thrale, 237;
distressed at Crisp's death, 271;
at Johnson's deathbed and funeral, 285-8;
is commended by the queen, 295;
misses a Court appointment, 323-6;
is delighted at Fanny's appointment, xxxiii, 329;
takes her to Windsor, 333;
alluded to, 370, 415;
his verses on the queen's birthday, ii. 9;
is incensed at Fanny's condition, 65;
is lampooned in the Probationary Odes, 145;
George III's opinion of him, 291-2;
mentioned, 356;
his views respecting Fanny's resignation, 366, 368-70, 374,
376-7, 380, 386-7 [See also i. xli-ii];
takes her home, 411;
chats with Burke, 429;
with Fanny, 430-32;
meets the Burkes at Mrs. Crewe's, 456-62;
Fox at the Literary Club, iii, 44;
objects to Mdme. de Stael, 51;
to Fanny's marriage, 65;
loses his second wife, 71, 117-9;
meets the Piozzis, 88;
his "Life of Metastasio," 89, 92, 103;
attends Burke's funeral, 125;
visits Etruria and Lichfield, 128;
visits Herschel, 131, 184;
his poetical history of astronomy, 143;
his Chelsea apartments, 155, 165;
his books, 173;
converses with George III, 185, 193;
dines with the Prince of Wales, 243;
visits Bath, 244;
elected a member of the French Institute, 247;
is greatly aged, 265;
his death, 249, 273;
his portrait by Reynolds, 389;
his papers, 447;
his memoirs, 455.
Burney, Mrs., née Allen, wife of above, I. 60;
visits Lowndes with Fanny, 79;
dresses badly, 86;
visits Reynolds, 113;
her death, iii. 71, 117.
Burney, Rev. Charles, D.D., his birth and library, i. 60;
attends Johnson's funeral, 288;
at the Hastings trial, ii. 95, 100, 103, 391;
mentioned, 375, 411; ii. 171;
dines with the Prince of Wales, 243;
meets Fanny on her return from France, 265;
his school, 270, 272;
buys his father's portrait, 389.
Burney, Charles Rousseau ("Mr. Burney"),
his parentage and mariiage, i. 59;
toasts the author of "Evelina," 72;
referred to, iii. 397.
Burney, Charlotte Anne (Mrs. Francis, afterwards Broome),
account of, i. 60;
describes her father's perusal of "Evelina," 65-7, 198, 224;
fragments of her journal, 254;
teased by Baretti, 302; 415; ii. 102, 108, 145;
at the Hastings trial, 345, 375; iii. 17;
marries Ralph Broome, 133, 167;
her death, 456.
Burney, Edward, Fanny's cousin, artist, i. 60, 61, 233.
Burney, Esther ("Hetty"), birth and marriage, i. 59;
and "Evelina," 64; ii. 350, 356; iii. 17, 397, 449, 455.
Burney, Frances (Madame d'Arblay),
Macaulay's acount of:--
her birth and education, i. xiv-v;
surroundings, xvii;
appearance and opportunities, xviii;
her Writings, first attempts, xviii;
her Diary and Letters, xix, xxiii;
"Evelina," xxiii-vii;
"The Witlings," xxviii;
"Cecilia," xxix;
"Camilla," "Edwy and Elgiva," x1v;
"The Wanderers," and the "Memoirs of Dr. Burney," xlvi;
qualities and blemishes of her writings, xlvii-lvii;
her detractors and admirers, xxvi-vii;
her presentation to George III. and Queen Charlotte, xxx;
her appointment and life at Court, xxxi-v;
her account of the royal visit to Oxford, xxxv;
of the trial of Warren Hastings, xxxvi;
of George III's illness, xxxviii;
her last years at Court, illness and resignation, xxxix;
her trip through the south-west of England, visit to juniper
Hall, and marriage with General d'Ar.blay, xliv;
her departure for France, x1v;
return to England and death, xlvi.
Diary and Letters:--
Her account of "Evelina," i. 61-74;
visits the Thrales and meets Dr. Johnson and Seward, 75-8;
interviews Lowndes, 79;
is confused by the praise of Johnson and others, 83-91;
meets Sir Joshua Reynolds, 92-5;
Mrs. Montagu, 100;
husbands suggested for her, 106;
is kissed by Johnson, 109;
visited by Dr. Francklin, 112;
visits Reynolds, 113;
meets R. B. Sheridan and his Wife, 123;
meets Arthur Murphy, 129;
purposes writing a play ("The Witlings"), 129, 133;
at Brighton, 133;
at Streatham, 137;
sends "The Witlings" to Crisp, 145;
her views of its fate, 146;
visits Tunbridge Wells, 149;
Brighton, 153, 236, 239, 248;
is badly treated by the Cumberlands, 155;
visits Bath, 165;
her letters on the Gordon riots, 193;
leaves Bath, 197;
at Streatham, 203;
attends Mrs. Paradise's rout, 224;
meets Edmund Burke and Gibbon, 228;
sits for her portrait, 233
her account of General Paoli, 234-5;
of Miss Monckton's assembly, 248;
at Mrs. Walsingham's, 256;
meets Mrs. Siddons, 257;
visits Johnson, 258;
is Praised by Soames Jenyns, 261-2;
loses her friend Crisp, 270-1;
visits the Cambridges, 273-5;
her friendship for Mrs. Locke, 277;
her views on Mrs. Thrale's second marriage, 278-9;
at Norbury with the Lockes, 280;
her stormy interview with Lady F., 282;
her last chat with Johnson, 283;
her account of his death, 285;
her visits to Mrs. Delany, 265-70, 292;
hides from the queen, 297;
her first interview with the king and queen, 298;
discusses literary matters with the king and queen, 316-21;
is presented at Court, 322;
is appointed a keeper of the robes, 327-32;
her arrival and reception at Windsor, 333-8;
looks on at the queen's toilet, 339;
is visited by Court officials, 340;
her daily routine, 345;
prepares the queen's snuff, 348, 361;
accompanies the Court to Kew, 349;
is visited by Mrs. Warren Hastings, 352;
on familiar terms with the princesses, 353;
her account of an attempt against the king, 355;
her bitter experience of Mrs. Schwellenberg begins, 359;
is kissed by Princess Amelia, 365;
is promised a gown from the queen, 368;
defends Mrs. Hastings, 371;
visits Nuneham and Oxford with the Court, 373;
worries and difficulties of the excursion, 374, 382, 390,
393-4;
her duties at Windsor and Kew, 399;
reads to the queen, 403;
repines at her Position, 403;
discusses Mdme. de Genlis, 4o5;
meets W. Herschel, 408, 444;
cannot ask: a guest to dinner, 413;
invites a wrong guest, 417
receives a lilac tabby from the queen, 421;
is entrusted with the queen's jewels, 422;
her tea-table worries, 425;
obtains a holiday, 433 ;
her verses on "The Greatcoat," 424, 434;
romps with Princess Amelia, 437;
is too late to attend on the queen, 438;
her present to Princess Augusta, 440;
is taken ill, 445;
in a predicament at St. James's, ii. 10-15;
is worried by Turbulent, 16, 24-31, 47, 54, 57, 82, 214-5;
is complimented in an epilogue, 32;
is disappointed With Mrs. Siddons, 52;
her resignation rumoured, 62;
is persecuted by Mrs. Schwellenberg, 65;
receives a gift from the queen, 72;
discusses Johnson and Mrs. Thrale, 74;
among her old friends, 82, 85;
attends the Warren Hastings trial, 95-136, 143-9, 345-6,
352-5, 357-65, 370-3,
389-95, 437-47, 452, 455;
at Egham races, 151;
at Cheltenham with the Court, 154-9;
her flirtation with Fairly, 159-61, 165, 168-9, 174, 177-87,
193-5, 197-9, 200-3, 204-6;
meets Seward, 167, 170;
meets Robert Raikes at Gloucester, 171;
visits Tewkesbury, 191;
is visited by Richard Burney, 192;
is attacked with influenza, 195;
visits Worcester, 199;
is at Windsor again, 207;
is twitted about Canon Shepherd, 209, 217;
her introduction to Lalande, 210;
is eyed curiously by the Prince of Wales, 211;
is plagued by Mrs. Schwellenberg, 215-8;
begins to write "Edwy and Elgiva," 222;
converses with George III. at the outset of his illness,
225-6;
her anxiety for him and the queen, 230-2;
attends the public prayers for his recovery, 250;
is comforted by Pepys's prognostics, 251;
leaves for Kew, 265-6;
reports to the queen on the king's health, 270;
is chased by the king in Kew Gardens; is kissed by him, 289;
his strange talk to her, 290-2;
her meetings with Fairly during the king's illness, 237,
239, 242, 244, 246, 248, 251, 253-64, 271,
275, 277, 279, 281, 297-8;
Fairly's visits remarked on by the queen, 280, 282;
Mrs. Schwellenberg's treatment of her during the king's
illness, 246, 272-5, 295;
sees the king recovered, 298-9, 300;
her verses on his recovery, 303;
her parting from Fairly, 303-4;
meets Miss Fuzilier, 304;
at Lyndhurst, 310;
Southampton, 312;
Weymouth, 313;
Exeter and Saltram, 321;
Plymouth, 323;
Mount Edgecumbe, 327;
meets Fairly again, 329;
at Longleat, 330;
Tottenham Court, 332;
Windsor, 333;
hears rumours of Fairly's marriage, 334, 340;
in the crush at Covent Garden, 335;
visited by Mrs. Fairly, 344, 373;
reads Colman's plays to the queen, 347, 350;
meets Madame PiOzzi, 355;
her servant Columb, 367;
meets James Boswell, 377;
is mentioned in his "Johnson," 401;
helps the queen to write verses, 388;
her desire to resign, 366, 368-70, 374-6, 379, 389;
close of her Court duties, 401;
her successor and pension, 403;
her leave-takings, 4o5-8;
travels through the south-west of England, 410;
meets Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 426-9;
and Bishop Percy, 428;
her literary recreation, 430;
on Reynolds's blindness, 431;
attends the queen, 434-7;
chats with her and the king, 448;
compliments the king on his birthday, 453;
with the Burkes at Mrs. Crewe's, 456;
visits Caen Wood, 464;
her adventure at the Shakespeare gallery, 465;
is invited to Arthur Young's, 468;
stays there, iii. 17;
at Aylsham, 37;
Norbury Park, 43;
meets Madame de Stael and other émigrés of juniper Hall,
44-61;
falls in love with d'Arblay, 48, 59, 64;
marries him, 67 (see Arblay, Madame d').
Burney, James (afterwards Admiral), his birth, voyages, marriage,
and death, i. 59, 168, 173, 200;
at Chesington, 436;
at the Hastings trial, ii. 120, 122, 125, 129-39, 357-8,
438;
his interview with the Earl of Chatham, 370;
wants a ship, 356;
mentioned, 350, 411; iii. 60.
Burney, Mrs. James, i. 436.
Burney, Richard, Fanny's uncle, i. 60.
Burney, Richard, Fanny's cousin, i. 60;
"Evelina" read to, 62;
visits Fanny at Cheltenham, ii. 192.
Burney, Richard Thomas, i. 60.
Burney, Sarah Harriet ("Sally"), i. 60, 65, 333; ii. 357, 391,
411; iii. 17, 24, 72, 146.
Burney, Susanna Elizabeth (Mrs. Phillips), her birth, marriage,
and death, i. 60; 62-6, 65, 224, 270, 278, 280, 344, 403,
411, 415;
her acquaintance with the emigres of juniper Hall, iii. 17,
28-38, 54, 56-61, 64;
leaves for Ireland, 71, 121, 124;
her death, 170, 188-91.
Bute, Lady, ii. 69-70.
Byron, Augusta, i. 169, 179, 181,
185-8;
Captain George, 169, 173;
Mrs., i. 169; ii. 424; iii. 445.
Caen-Wood, ii. 464-'
Cagliostro, Count, i. 411.
Calais, description of, iii. 211.
Calvert, Dr., i. 92-3.
Cambaceres, iii. 231.
Cambridge, Rev. George Owen, i. 258-9, 261-4, 273, 275.
Cambridge, Miss, i. 327-30, 347; ii. 223, 271, 304, 344, 375,
411.
Cambridge, Richard Owen, i. 258-9, 261-2, 273-5, 326; ii. 16, 83.
"Camilla," Madame d'Arblay's novel, i. x1v;
Macaulay on, li-lv;
iii. 72, 89, 95-6, 98-102, 107-12, 114;
reviewed, 116.
Camilla Cottage, iii. 115, 122-3, 135, 154, 157.
Campbell, Lady Augusta, ii. 85.
Camperdown, Duncan's victory off, iii. 140-3, 147-50.
Campo, Signor del, ii. 36, 47.
Canning, George, iii. 82-3.
Carmichael, Miss, Johnson's Poll, i. 96-7.
Caroline of Brunswick (Queen), iii. 440-3;
Carter, Elizabeth, ii. 83, 279.
Cator, Mr., i. 210-13, 221.
Cavendish, Ladies Georgiana and Harriet, ii. 425-6.
"Cecilia," Fanny's novel;
price paid for, i. Xxiv, 254;
its production, xxviii-ix, 202, 228;
Macaulay's estimate of, xxxii, l-lv;
praised by Burke, 232-3;
extolled by the "old wits," 251-4;
eulogised by Soames jenyns, 261-3;
discussed at Mrs. Delany's, 268-76; ii. 32, 176; iii. 114.
Chamier, Anthony, M.P., i. 148
Chapman, Dr., Vice- Chancellor at Oxford, ii. 386-7.
Chapone, Mrs. (Hester Mulso), account Of, i. 265-70, 288; ii. 83,
321; iii. 172, 398.
Charlotte, Princess,
anecdotes of, iii. 145, 159, 290;
her death, 419, 421.
Charlotte, Queen, Macaulay's account of, i. xxx-xxxii;
in favour of Warren Hastings, xxxviii;
her treatment of Fanny, xl, xli, xliii;
generosity to Mrs. Delany, 291;
inquisitive about Fanny, 294-5;
meets her, 304-13;
her disposition and manners, 314;
chats about Mdme. de Genlis, Goethe, Klopstock, Milton,
Wickliffe, and Roman Catholic superstitions, 319-21;
on the Terrace at Windsor, 325;
aPpoints Fanny a keeper of her robes, 327-32;
receives her at Windsor, 335;
ceremonial in her dressing-room, 339;
Fanny's routine with, 345-8;
er snuff, 348-9, 361;
at a Drawing-room, 350, 369;
at Kew, 351;
her pet dog, 353;
distressed by the attempt against the king, 355, 357-61,
367;
promises Fanny a gown, 368;
visits Nuneham, 374;
Oxford, 385-95;
Blenheim, 397;
Fanny as her reader, 403;
advises her concerning Mdme. de Genlis, 407; 416, 419, 420,
422;
praised by Fanny, 424;
cautions Fanny, 432;
tired of her gewgaws, grants Fanny a holiday, 433;
receives some verses from her, 424, 434;
rebukes her, 439; 440, 442, 446
Dr. Burney's verses for, ii. 10; 22;
at the play, 31;
on the king's birthday, 33;
with the Polignacs, 39;
with the Duke of York, 49; 52, 85;
with the Prince of Wales, 61, 63;
her New Year gift to Fanny, 72;
remarks on Dr. Johnson, 77-8;
interested in the Hastings trial, 95, 119, 345, 361, 390-1,
395, 448;
chats about Lady Hawke's novel, 150;
visits Cheltenham, 155-7;
her rooms there, 163;
her selfishness, 181;
remarks on Fairly, 185-7;
visits Worcester, 199;
on Fairly, 200, 205-6;
returns to Windsor, 206;
her Wit, 216;
during the king's illness, 224-31, 234-6, 238-40, 242, 244,
246, 248-50, 252, 257-8,
262-3;
at Kew with the king, 265, 269, 272, 276;
remarks on Fairly's visits to Fanny, 280, 282, 285;
her birthday, 281, 361; 292, 295
walks out with the king, 297-8; 300, 302;
orders illuminations for the king's recovery, 303;
holds a Drawing-room, 304;
her poultry, 305;
visits Lyndhurst, 310;
Weymouth, 313, 315, 320-1, 323;
Longleat, 330-3;
on Fairly, 335;
at the play, 335, 342;
employs Fanny as reader, 347, 350;
her treatment of Fanny, 366, 379- 89, 390, 401-2;
her gift to Lord Harcourt, 388;
grants Fanny a pension, 403-4, 405;
takes leave of her, 408-9;
attended by Fanny, 434-7;
chats with Fanny, 447, 454-5;
Fanny presents "Camilla: to, iii. 99, 103;
gives Fanny fifty guineas, 106;
has interviews with her, 141, 154;
her bounties, 159;
alarmed by a mad woman, 266, 278;
visits Bath, 420;
receives General d'Arblay, 425;
her presents to Fanny, 427;
her approaching dissolution, 437;
her death, 438-9.
Chateaubriand, F. R. de, iii. 330-3, 338;
his wife, 331-2.
Chatham, Pitt, Earl of, i. xx; ii. 321;
receives James Burney, 370.
Chatre, Marchioness de la, iii. 10, 28, 35, 39, 53;
Marquis de la, iii. 39.
Chavagnac, Adrienne de, iii. 208.
Cheltenham, royal visit to, ii. 154;
the wells at, 164;
the walks at, 173.
Chesington, residence of S. Crisp, i. xxii, 60;
Fanny at, 64-75, 200, 233, 266, 270-1, 433 ; iii. 61-5.
Chester, Porteus, Bishop of, his sermons, i. 313;
his preferment, ii. 82.
Chesterfield, Earl of, ii. 317, 346.
Cheveley, Mrs., i. 416, 439; ii. 36, 72.
Chimay, Princess de, iii. 254.
Cholmondeley, Mrs., admires "Evelina," i. xxvii, 68, 94;
meets Fanny, 114-20;
her entertainment, 120-6;
Cholmondeley, Mr., i. 114;
Fanny, i. 114-
Claremont, Lady, ii. 97.
Clarence, Duke of, see William, Prince.
Clarges, Sir Thomas, i. 344.
Clayton, Lady Louisa, i. 325, 342.
Clerk, Mr., apothecary, ii. 195.
Clerke, Sir Philip Jennings, i. 127-8, 137-9, 194, 204-5; ii.
312.
Clive, Kitty, i- 317.
Collumpton Church, ii. 421.
Colman, George, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvi;
his comedies, ii. 347-50.
Cologne, iii. 373.
Columb, Jacob, ii. 367.
Condé, prince de, iii. 283, 329-30.
Conway, General, ii. 23.
Cooke, Kitty, i. 60, 108, 200, 233,
435; iii. 63.
Cork, Lord, i. 228-9.
Cotton, Captain, i. 173.
Court (the), life of an attendant at, i. xxxi, xxxiv;
monotony of, Xxxv;
Fanny's treatment at, xl-xliii ; 289-90;
presentations at, 322-3;
at Windsor, 333-49, 352-66, 400-47;
at Kew, 349, 366, 422
at St. james's, 308, 350, 360.
royal birthdays at, 364
visits Nuneham, 374-85, 396;
Oxford, 385-95;
Blenheim, 397;
equerries at, 429;
routine at, 443;
at St james's, ii. 9-15, 33-5, 62, 65, 85;
at Windsor, 16-31, 35-53, 55-61, 72-81 ;
at Kew, 50;
at the play, 32;
New Year's day at, 72;
visits Cheltenham, 155;
Worcester, 199;
during the king's illness, at Windsor, 222-264;
at Kew, 265-303;
at Windsor, 303;
in the New Forest, 311;
at Weymouth, 313-21, 329;
at Exeter and Saltram, 322-3;
Longleat, 330;
Tottenham Court, 332;
Windsor, 333, 340, 373, 401;
Kew, 407;
St. james's, 304, 335, 345-73, 382, 396, 408.
at Windsor, iii. 99-112, 185-7.
Courtenay, Lord, ii, 420.
Courtown, Lord, i. 366 ; ii. 155, 159, 162, 164, 165, 191, 199,
314, 323, 399;
Lady, ii. 191, 263, 265, 274, 322; iii. 159,
Coussmaker, Miss, i. 67.
Coventry, Lady, and Crisp's "Virginia," i. xx-i.
Crawford, Mr., ii. 51.
Crewe, John, first Lord, iii. 266;
Mrs., later Lady, i. 121; ii. 129-30, 138-9, 411, 456-68;
iii. 73, 75, 77, 125-6, 129, 266-8, 277-88.
Crisp, Anne, i. 26.
Crisp, Samuel, his appearance and acquirements, i. xix;
his "Virginia," xx, xxi;
his misanthropy, xxii;
his regard for Fanny; he condemns "The Witlings,"
xxviii, 145-7;
"Evelina" read to him, 64;
he guesses the author, 70-1;
learns the truth, 74-5;
alluded to, 200, 233;
his death, xxix, 238, 270-1;
his remarks on letter writing, iii. 452.
Critics, Macaulay on the, i. xix.
Croker, J. W., twits Fanny, i. xxvi.
Crutchley, Mr., M.P., chats with Fanny, 1. 106-8, 201-23;
at the Hastings trial, ii. 101-2, 114, 122;
at Egham races, 151.
Cumberland, Richard, i. xxvi, 121, 156-8, 315-6; iii. 91-4;
Mrs., i. 154-6;
Richard, the younger, i. 155-7.
Cumberland, Ernest, Duke of, ii. 98; iii. 160.
Cumberland, Lady Albinia, iii. 181.
Cure, Mr., i. 154-5.
Damer, Hon. Mrs., ii. 328; iii. 218.
D'Arblay, see Arblay.
Davenant, Mr. and Mrs., i. 208-9.
Delany, Dr., i. xxx, 264.
Delany, Mrs., account of, i. xxx, 64;
reads "Cecilia," 252-3;
Fanny's first Visit to, 265-70;
royal generosity to, 290;
visited by George III. and Queen Charlotte, 293;
her intercourse with Fanny and the royal family, 324,
329-30, 334-44, 351-2, 355, 358-9,
363-6, 374, 401, 4o6, 416, 420,
422, 426-7, 439, 441-2; ii. 21,
32, 53, 61, 69, 72, 94;
her death, 141-3;
her marriage at Longleat, 330;
judged by Burke, 460.
Delap, Rev. John, D.D., i. 139, 141, 150, 157, 160-1.
Delawarr, Earl, ii. 321.
Desmoulins, Mrs., Johnson's "De Mullin," i. 95-6, 258.
Devonshire, Duke of, i. 248; ii. 410, 426-8; iii. 125;
Georgiana, Duchess of, i. 2 15 ; ii. 410, 426-8.
Dewes, Bernard, i. 295, 298-9, 440.
"Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay," original edition, i. xi,
xii, Xlv;
origin of the, xiv, xxxiv.
Dickens, Mrs., i. 154.
Digby, Colonel, Hon. Stephen, see Fairly.
Dillon, Mdlle. iii. 338.
Dobson, Mrs., authoress, i. 170.
Dorset, Duke of, i. 121, 309.
Douai, royalists at, iii. 324.
Douglas, Archibald, ii. 222-3.
Douglas, Captain, R.N., ii. 316, 337.
Douglas, Dr., i. 445.
Douglas, Lady Frances, ii, 222.
D'Oyley, Sir John and Lady, ii. 169, 173-4.
Drake, Sir Francis (royal steward), i. 363; ii. 420.
Dudley, Sir H. Bate, see Bate.
Dumouriez, General, iii. 54.
Duncan, Admiral, his victory off Camperdown, iii. 140-3, 147-50.
Duncannon, Lady, ii. 424.
Dundas, Mr. (Sir David), ii. 375.
Dunkirk, Fanny's adventure at, iii, 249;
Spanish prisoners at, 257.
Duras, Dowager Duchess de, iii. 295.
Duras, Duchess de, iii- 336;
Duke de, iii. 281-7,
"Early Diary of Frances Burney," i. xv.
"Edwy and Elgiva," Fanny's tragedy, i. xiv; ii, 222, 349; iii.
72, 90.
Effingham, Lady, lady of the bed-chamber, i. 343, 351-2, 361,
439; ii. 8, 222, 225, 227.
Egerton, Mrs Ariana, iii. 69.
Egham races, Fanny at, ii. 151.
Elizabeth, Princess ; her illness, i. 296-315;
her intercourse with Fanny, 339, 355, 362, 365 374, 377-8,
385, 387, 423; ii. 10, 34-5, 39, 155, 164, 201, 205,
211,
296, 347, 404, 409, 436, 447, 454; iii. 100, 108;
her marriage, 122 ; 140, 155, 158, 165, 266, 300, 346,
420-2, 427, 436.
Ellenborough, Lord (Mr. Law), at the Hastings trial, ii. 437,
439-41, 443-
Elliot, Sir Gilbert, ii. 97, 100, 118; iii. 80, 125.
Embry, Mr., i. 109-10.
Emigrés, French, at juniper Hall, i. xliv; iii. 11, 13, 15,
28-61.
Erskine, Hon. Thomas, and Mrs. Siddons, i. 257;
his egotism, his wife, ii. 462-4.
"Evelina," Fanny's novel ; its publication, i. xxiv, 59, 61-2;
its success, xxv, 115;
its admirers, Nxvi;
its style, liii, liv;
Macaulay's estimate of, lvi;
attributed to Anstey, 63;
read to Crisp, 64-5;
by Dr. Burney, 66-7;
by Reynolds, 78;
by Burke, 101;
praised by Dr. Burney, Mrs. Cholmondeley, and Mrs. Thrale,
68-72;
by Dr. Johnson, 71, 73, 76, 103;
by Crisp, 74-5;
by Seward, 77;
by Sheridan, 124;
Fanny's copy of, 69;
price paid for the NIS., 69;
Reynolds sits up reading, 78;
praised to Dr. Lort, 90-1;
curiosity respecting its author, 92-5, 224-8;
Cumberland's jealousy of, 158;
quoted, 165;
a child's enquiries about, 191-2;
Paoli's View Of, 234;
Windham's remarks on, ii. 144;
Baretti on, 176;
its sale, iii. 114.
Exeter, royal visit to, ii. 321.
Fairly, Colonel (Hon. Stephen Digby), i. xxxix;
ii. attacks Mrs. Warren Hastings, 371;
at Nuneham, with Fanny, 380, 383;
at Oxford, 385, 390, 395-7;
embroiled with Mrs. Schwellenberg, 400;
looks melancholy, 445;
loses his first wife, ii. 53;
at Windsor, 75;
his conversation, 78;
likely to marry Miss Fuzilier, 126, 153, 177; 139;
with Fanny, 154;
at Cheltenham, 155, 158-9;
his téte-a-téte with Fanny, 159-61 ; 162 ;
talks, reads, and flirts with her, 165-8, 170, 174, 177-87,
193, 197, 199;
ill with the gout, 171, 173;
criticises the princes, 189;
takes leave of Fanny, 200-3;
his note to her, 204;
discussed by his brother equerries, 213;
with the Gunnings, 224;
at Windsor during George III.'s illness, 228, 233, 236-7,
239-40;
soothes the king, 241;
on familiar terms with Fanny, 242-4-6-8;
his remarks on the prayers for the king, 249;
is anxious about the queen, 251;
his intercourse with Fanny, 253-62, 264;
arrives at Kew, 267;
is concerned for the princesses, 271-2;
disliked by Mrs. Schwellenberg, 275-7;
with Fanny, 277, 279, 281;
the queen remarks on his visits, 280-2;
search for him, 285; 293-4;
meets Windham, 297-8;
takes leave of Fanny, 303-4
at Weymouth, 329;
his marriage is rumoured, 334, 340;
his strange wedding to Miss Fuzilier, 342-4;
meets Fanny again, iii. 111.
Fairly, Mrs., ii. 344, 373; see also Fuzilier.
Farnham, ii. 411.
Farren, Miss, actresw, ii. 32; iii. 149.
Fauconberg Hall, ii. 155, 157;
Lord, ii. 155.
"Female Quixote, The," by Charlotte Lenox, i. lvi.
Ferrars, Lady De, i. 243-4;
Lord De, i. 243.
Ferry, Mr., i. 178-9.
Fielding, Henry, Dr. Johnson on, i. 91.
Fielding, Sir John, i. 192-3.
Fielding, Mrs. (woman of the bedchamber), i. 341-2, 351, 366; ii.
10, 304.
Finch, Lady Charlotte (governess to the princesses), i. 341-2,
355-6; ii. 184, 252, 259, 265, 270, 274, 286.
Finch, Miss, i- 06.
Fisher, Canon, i. 338, 366, 427,
436-7; ii. 72, 75-6, 212-3, 342,
406; iii. 99, 120.
Fisher, Kitty, and Dr. Johnson, i. 89.
Fisher, Mrs., ii. 72, 75; iii. 110.
Fite, Madame de la, at Norbury Park, i. 280-1, 311-2;
her intercourse with Fanny at Windsor, 337, 342, 355, 405-6,
409-16, 440 ; ii. 35, 405, 451.
Fitzherbert, Mrs., ii. 320.
Flint, Bet, and Johnson, i. 87,8.
Foster, Lady Elizabeth, ii- 410, 427-8.
Fouche, iii. 250.
Fox, Charles James, at the Hastings trial, ii. 92, 93, 97, 125,
127-8, 134-5, 361, 392, 441;
and the regency bill, 221;
Burke on, 459, 463;
and the execution of Louis xvi, iii. 44.
France, revolution in, iii. 11, 42-4;
Fanny goes to, 203;
leaves, 263;
returns to, 292-327, 378,83;
foreign occupation Of, 379-81.
Francis, Clement, marries Charlotte Burney, i. 332 ; ii. 109,
123, 145, 345, 375, 380-1; iii. 38.
Francis, Mrs., see Burney, Charlotte.
Francis, Mr. (Sir Philip), ii. 89, 109, 346.
Francklin, Rev. Th., D. D., admires "Evelina," i. xxvii;
interviews Fanny, 112.
French Clergy Fund, the, iii. 77, 78.
French, Miss, Burke's niece, ii. 457, 461;
Fuller, Captain, and his soldiers, i. 135, 136, 137.
Fuller, Mr. Rose, at Streatham, i. 92, 109, 139;
his conversation, 148, 153.
Fuzilier, Miss (Charlotte Gunning), ii. 126, 153, 177, 224, 255,
304, 340, 342-4, see Fairly, Mrs.
Gabrielli, Signora, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvii.
Gage, Sir Thomas, ii. 450; iii. 23.
Galway, Dowager Lady, i. 248, 254.
Gaud (Ghent), Louis xviii. at, iii. 337, 349.
Garrick, David, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvi;
his connection with Crisp's "Virginia," xx, xxi;
his love of flattery, 122; 317;
reads "Lethe" to a royal audience, 349;
his relatives, his monument at Lichfield, iii. 129.
Garrick, Mrs., ii. 82, 432.
Garth, Major, ii- 374.
Gast, Mrs. Sophia, Crisp's sister, i. 60, 71, 169, 233, 266; ii.
207.
Genlis, Madame de, Fanny's acquaintance with, i. 316;
her strictures on the English stage, 318 ;
Queen Charlotte on her writings, 319;
her position discussed, 405-8;
in England as Mdme. Brulard, 449; iii. 22-4, 26-7.
George III, his generosity to Mrs. Delany, i. 265, 291 ;
visits her incog, 293;
is inquisitive about Fanny, 294;
his first interview with her, XXX, 298;
his health, constitution, and diet, 299 ;
questions Fanny about her writings, 301-4;
is anxious she should continue writing, 310;
his views on sermons, 313;
his demeanour and character, 314, 318-9;
takes tea at Mrs. Delany's, etiquette, 314-5;
his opinions of Lord George Sackville, Voltaire, and
Rousseau, 316;
of plays and players, 317;
on the Terrace at Windsor, 325-6;
in the queen's dressing-room, 339;
at Kew, 349-51;
an attempt on his life, 355-61;
is cheered at Little Kew, 367;
visits Nuneham, Oxford, and Blenheim, 373-98;
protects Herschel, 408, 420;
his equerries and his barley-water, 431 ;
with his favourite daughter, Amelia, 437;
visits Fanny during her illness, 446;
converses with jacob Bryant, ii. 23;
at the play, 31;
his birthday, 33;
plays backgammon, 37;
with the Polignacs, 39;
is joyful at the Duke of York's return, 49;
criticises Goldsworthy's collar, 84;
is amused by a caricature, 140;
goes to Cheltenham, 155;
his rooms there, 163;
visits Cirencester, 171;
Tewkesbury, 174;
is solicitous about Fairly, 181-2, 186, 187-8;
lodges the Duke of York in a portable wooden house, 190;
has Fanny prescribed for, 196;
visits Worcester, 199;
returns to Windsor, 206;
his illness, 220;
is in an uncertain state, 222-4;
his want of sleep, 294-6;
progress of his illness, 226-8;
first outburst of delirium, 228;
delirious, 232;
refuses to see Dr. Warren, 234;
his night watchers, 238;
is soothed by Mr. Fairly, 240;
public prayers for, 248;
is much worse, 250;
certainty of his recovery, 251;
his charter, 254, 256;
reports upon his Condition, 257;
requires stricter management, 259;
is removed to Kew, 261, 265-6;
state of his health, 268, 272, 273;
takes his first walk, 274;
his varying condition, 276-7;
is treated by Dr. Willis, 274, 278;
on the queen's birthday, 281;
chases Fanny in Kew Gardens, 287-92;
his gradual amendment, 294-8;
is completely restored, 299;
inquires after Fanny, 300;
illuminations on his recovery, 303;
his reception in the New Forest, 310;
at LyDdhurst, 311;
at Salisbury, Dorchester, Weymouth, 313;
his sea baths, 314-6;
his amusements at and excursions from Weymouth, 316-21;
at Exeter and Saltram, 322-3;
again at Weymouth, 329;
at Longleat, 330;
at Tottenham Court, 332;
returns to Windsor, 333;
at Covent Garden Theatre, 335-40;
is interested in the Hastings trial, 395. 456 ;
his birthday, 395, 399;
reads Boswell's "Johnson," 401-2;
takes leave of Fanny, 409;
meets her again; 436;
chats with her, 448-9, 453-6;
"Camilla" presented to him, iii. 100, 106-7;
notices M. d'Arblay, 110;
remarks on "Camilla," 111;
chats with Fanny, 145;
with Dr. Burney, 185-7;
is again mad; 252, 267;
his death, 440.
Ghent, see Gand.
Gibbon eulogises Fanny, i. xxvi;
meets her, 228-32;
reads "Cecilia," 254;
falls into the Thames, 275;
admires Lady Elizabeth Foster, ii. 428.
Girardin, Alexandre de, iii. 34.
Glastonbury Abbey, ii. 421.
Gloucester, Fanny at, ii. 171.
Gloucester, Dr. Halifax, bishop of, ii. 173.
Gloucester, Princess Sophia of, iii. 151.
Gloucester, William Frederick, Duke of, iii. 151.
Gloucester, William Henry, Duke of, ii. 98, 311 ; iii. 151.
Goethe, his "Sorrows of Werther," i. xxxi, 320.
Goldsmith, Dr., his "Good-Natured man" and "The Rambler," i.
83-4;
his love for Mary Horneck, 111;
his blundering ways, 232.
Goldsworthy, Colonel (equerry), his character and
humour, i. 421;
is offended with Fanny, 427;
his duties and discomforts, 429-31; 440;
his remarks on the Court concerts, 444; ii- 17;
character and humour, 36-7;
derides Col. Manners, 40-2;
his huge coat collar, 84;
at Worcester, 199 213
his breach of etiquette, 216, 218;
during George III.s illness, 228-9, 231, 233, 235, 239, 261,
268;
at Weymouth, 320, 323, 407.
Goldsworthy, Miss (governess to the princesses), i. 2o2, 342,
365, 421; ii. 32, 231-5, 238-9, 240, 246, 252, 266; 270,
396, 406-7, 434.
Gomme, Miss, Court attendant, ii. 34, 95, too, 270, 283, 295,
342, 405, 434 ; iii. 105.
Gordon, Lord George, i. 192-5-7, 411;
riots, i. 165, 192-9.
Grafton, Duke of, iii. 27.
Grattan, Henry, iii. 278, 281.
Gregory, Miss, i. 100-3; ii. 424.
Grenville, General, ii. 50, 218, 407. Greville, Colonel, equerry, see Wellbred.
Greville, Fulk, patron ofDr. Burney, i. xiii.
Grey, Mr., afterwards Earl, at the Hastings trial, ii. 93, 97;
and Reform, 463;
alluded to, iii. 389.
Grub Street, Fanny's proposed visit to, i. 199.
Guibert, M., iii. 56.
Guiche, Countess de, ii. 39.
Guiffardiere, Rev. C. de, see "Turbulent."
Gunning, Charlotte, see Fuzilier.
Gunning, Sir Robt., ii. 126, 224, 342.
Gwatkin, Mr., i. 92, 119; ii. 444.
Gwynn, Colonel (king's equerry), ii- 45, 47, 51, 155, 158-9, 162,
165, 173, 191, 247, 317, 407 ;
Mrs., see Horneck, Mary.
Haggerdorn, Mrs., keeper of the queen's robes, succeeded
by Fanny, i. 329-31; ii. 24, 153.
Hagget, Rev. Mr., i. 379, 383, 385, 390, 396-8.
Hales, Lady, on "Evelina," i. 67.
Halifax, Dr., ii. 173.
Hamilton , "Single speech," i. 164.
Hamilton, Sir William, ii. 38.
Hamilton, Lady Ann, iii. 442.
Hamilton, Mrs., of Chesington, i. 60, 200, 233 ; iii.
63.
Hampden, Mrs., i. 250.
Harcourt, Earl of, i. 122-3, 373-4, 379, 385, 387-8, 390, 400;
ii. 185, 191, 388, 399;
Countess of, i. 373, 377, 382, 385, 390, 393-4 ii. 185, 191.
Harcourt, General, i. 380, 383, 385, 390; ii. 39, 244, 268;
Mrs., i. 396; ii. 39, 281.
Harrington, Dr., i. 171-8, 195.
Harrington, Rev. Henry, i. 171-2, 177.
Harris, James, i. 198; ii. 355-8.
Hartington, Marquis of, ii. 426.
Hastings, Warren, Fanny's opinions of, i. xxxvii;
Queen Charlotte and, xxxviii;
meets Fanny, 326;
his marriage, 327;
the storm gathering round, ii. 44;
résumé of his career, impeachment, trial, 86-94;
Fanny's account of his trial, 95-139, 143-9, 345-6, 352-5,
357-65,
370-3, 389-95, 437-47, 452,455-6;
meets Windham, 373;
is acquitted, iii. 92.
Hastings, Mrs. Warren, account of, i. 327;
visits Fanny, 352;
is defended by her, 371, 372;
mischief making about, 400;
her money, ii. 92;
her eccentricities, 451.
Hawke, Lady, i. 225-8; ii. 150.
Hawkesworth, i. xvi.
Hawkins, Mr., surgeon of the royal household, ii. 235, 252, 260,
276.
Hawkins the, ii. 200.
Hayes, Mrs., i. 443.
Heberden, Dr., king's physician, ii. 38, 226, 232, 234, 250;
Mrs. and Miss, i. 360; ii. 39.
Henderson, John, actor, i. 317.
Henin, Princess d', iii, 56, 119, 136, 218-9, 222, 304-5, 307;
her flight from Paris with Fanny, 311, 313-25, 330;
at Brussels, 335, 343, 349, 304, 369, 370.
Herschel, Miss, her comet, i. 409; ii. 58; iii. 131.
Herschel, Dr. (afterwards Sir W.), his telescope, i. 408-9, 445;
discussed, ii. 37, 38, 40, 58;
visited by Dr. Burney, iii. 131, 184-7.
Hoole, John, i. 259, 285.
Horneck, Catherine (Mrs Bunbury), "Little Comedy," i. 111; ii.
51.
Horneck, Mary (Mrs. Gwynn), the Jessamy Bride, i. 111, 114; ii.
45, 140, 317, 319;
Mrs., i. 111, 114.
Howard, Lady Frances, i- 343-4, 352, 439 ; ii. 222.
Howard, Sir George, i. 344, 352 ii. 222.
Howe, Lord, and the I"Vengeur," iii. 143.
Huddisford, Mr., his libel on Fanny, i. 113, 119.
Hulin, General, iii. 224-5.
Humphries, Miss, i. 62-3.
Hundred Days, the, iii. 292-3.
Huntingdon, i. 176, 180.
Hurd, Bishop of Worcester, ii. 143, 199.
Ilfracombe, Fanny at, iii. 398;
her adventure at, 405-18.
Illness of George III., ii. 221-99.
Imhoff, Madame, marries Warren Hastings, i. 327.
Impey, Sir Elijah, ii. 89, 118.
Inchiquin, Lord, iii. 125.
Jacobi, Mdlle., Fanny's successor, ii. 403-9, 434, 447; iii. 102,
106, 109, 142.
jaucourt, M. de, iii. 14, 29-32, 80.
jenyns, Soame, praises "Cecilia," i. 261-3.
jerningham, his verses, i. xxvii.
Jervis, Admiral, iii. 143.
Johnson, Commodore, i. 168.
Johnson, Samuel, LL. D., his friend- ship for Dr. Burney, i. xvi;
his opinion of "Evelina," xxvi;
his last message to Fanny, xxix;
assists her with "Cecilia," lii-lv;
"Evelina" read to him, 71, 73;
meets Fanny, 77;
tails at Langton, 81;
praises "Evelina," 83, 90, 103;
abuses the Scotch, 84-5;
criticises Mrs. Burney's dress, 86;
his stories of Bet Flint and Mrs. Pinkethman, 87-8;
his household, 95;
his opinion of Mrs. Montagu, 97-9;
his compliments and bitter sayings, 104-6;
kisses Fanny, 109;
disputes with Sir P. J. Clerke, 128-9;
advises Fanny respecting her play, 130-2;
his account of the Gordon riots, 192;
offers to take Fanny to Grub Street, 199;
is appointed Thrale's executor, 202;
intercedes for Mauritius Lowe, 209;
his "Life of Lord Lyttelton," 211-3;
his sportive moods, 215;
at Brighton, 238;
on Gray and Pope, 240-1;
his bluster at Lord de Ferrars, 243;
is held in general dread, 247
attends Miss Monckton's assembly, 250-5;
his inmates at Bolt Court, 258;
is attacked by paralysis, 272;
his failing health, 283;
his death, 285-8;
his letters to Mrs. Thrale, ii. 74;
his intercourse with Windham, 103, 136-8;
his life by Boswell, 377, 400;
his monument at Lichfield, iii. 129;
his portrait by Reynolds, 389;
his view of sorrow, 445.
Joigny, Fanny at, iii. 234.
Jones, Colonel, commander at Brussels, iii. 350, 363.
Jordan, Mrs., ii. 79; in "The Country Girl," 185, 190.
juniper Hall, French émigré's at, i. xliv; iii. 11, 13, 15, 28,
61.
Kaye, Captain, a beau, i. 245-6.
Kenyon, Lord, ii. 393.
Kew Palace, the Court at, i. 349-51, 367, 422; ii. 50-4;
during the king's illness, 265-303;
gardens of, Fanny chased by George III., 287;
Fanny's farewell to, 407.
Klopstock, his "Messiah," i. x1xi, 320.
L'AEKEN, palace of, iii. 341.
Ladd, Sir John, i. 107;
Lady, i. 92, 109.
Lafayette. Marquis de, iii, 12, 14, 29, 31, 86, 207, 426;
Marchioness de, iii. 221;
Mdlle. de, iii. 223.
Lalande, J. J. de, ii. 208-11.
Lally-Tolendol, Count de, iii. 13;
his tragedy, 54;
at Norbury, 118, 136;
his qualities, 196-7;
his flight from France, 312-4, 316-25, 328, 364, 369.
Lamb, Lady Caroline, iii, 344.
Lamballe, Princess de, ii. 50.
Lameth, iii. 16, 319-20.
Langton, Bennet, admires "Evelina," i. xxvii;
his children and affairs, 81-2;
at Johnson's deathbed, 286-8;
his wife, ii. 83;
mimics Johnson, 453.
Lansdowne, Lord, his connection with Waller and Pope, i. xxx;
iii. 260.
Latour-Maubourg, Victor de, iii. 273, 309.
Lauriston, General, iii. 171, 227, 241.
Lavalette, Marquis de, his escape, iii. 386-8.
Law, Mr., ii. 437, 439-41, 443.
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, his precocity, i. 167.
Lenox, Charlotte, her novel, "The Female Quixote," i. lvi;
Johnson on, ii. 401.
Lever, Sir Ashton, ii. 319.
Levett, Robert, at Dr. johnson's, i. 96.
Liancourt, Duke de, iii. 13, 18-22, 24-8, 37.
Lindsay, Lady Anne, i. 144.
Linley, Eliza Anne, married to Sheridan, i. 111-12, 344 [see
Sheridan, Mrs.].
Linley, Miss, sister to Mrs. Sheridan, i. 121.
Literary Club, The, meeting at, iii. 44.
Lobau, Count, iii- 355.
Locke, Mr. and Mrs., of Norbury Park, i. 277, 280-2, 312,
344, 411; ii. 299, 305; iii. 16, 39,
59, 76, 81, 115, 120, 144, 154,
202, 252, 279, 384-5, 394, 441,
450, 455;
William, son of, his artistic talent, i. 312-3 ; ii. 60,
141.
London, Porteus, Bishop of, ii. 82.
Long, Dudley, ii. 97.
Longleat, the Court at, ii. 330;
paintings at, 331.
Lort, Michael, D.D., and "Evelina," i. 89, 90.
Loughborough, Lord, ii. 462.
Louis xvi, his trial and execution, iii. 42-4, 48, 53-4.
Louis xviii., his levee at Grillon's, 276;
Fanny presented to, 284-8;
his reception in Paris, 291, 310, 318;
reaches Ghent, 337, 349;
leaves for France, 364-5.
"Love and Fashion," Fanny's comedy, iii. 193.
Lowe, Mauritius, painter, i. 209.
Lowndes, J., publishes "Evelina," i. xxiv, xxv, 59, 61, 69, 75;
is interviewed by Fanny, 79.
Luc, M. de, i. 443; ii. 9, 40, 48, 65-8, 70, 243-4, 262,
320, 391, 393, 396, 403, 435-6;
Mrs de, i- 353, 363 ; ii. 405.
Lucan, Lady, and Mrs. Siddons, i. 257-8.
Lulworth Castle, The Court at, ii. 318;
Fanny at, 320.
Luxembourg, Duke de, iii. 345.
Luxemburg, M. d'Arblay's mission to, iii. 339.
Lyndhurst, the king at, ii. 311.
Lyme, Fanny at, ii. 418.
MacBean, Johnson's amanuensis, i. 96.
Macartney, Earl, ii. 456.
Macburneys, The, i., xiii.
Malesherbes, M. de, iii. 48, 54,
Malouet, iii. 37.
Manners,
colonel, afterwards General (equerry), his eccentric sayings, ii.
36-8;
his singing, 40-2;
plagues Mrs. Schwellenberg, 42;
his election beating, 213;
alluded to, 152, 257;
mystifies Mrs. Scbwellenberg, 305;
as an M.P., 351;
mentioned, 393, 407; iii. 110-2.
Mansfield, Lord, i. 192-3; ii. 464.
Markham, Archbishop, ii. 105.
Marlborough, Duke of, is colour-blind, i. 307;
at Oxford, 386-7-9;
Duchess of, 386-9.
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, anecdote of, i. 169.
Mary, Princess, i. 353-4, 365; ii. 34, 39, 296, 396, 4o6, 434;
iii. 138, 164, 266, 437-9, 440.
Maurville, Mdme. de, iii. 334, 338, 348, 358, 364.
Mazancourt, Count de, iii. 339-40, 377.
Melbourne, Lord, iii. 243, 344.
Menage, Countess de, ii. 413.
"Memoirs of Dr. Burney,"'i. xxiii, lv, 234; iii. 455.
"Metastasio, Life of," Dr. Burney's, iii. 89, 92, 103.
Metcalf, Philip, M.P., i. 244-5, 250.
Mhaughendorf, Miss, i- 375-7, 381.
Mickleham, Fanny at, iii. 46, 49, 50, 52;
her marriage at, 67, 71.
Miller, Sir John, i. 174, 180, 190, 221.
Miller, Lady, "The Lady of the Vase," i. xxvii, 74-5, 180, 189,
221; ii. 424.
Milton Abbey, ii. 417.
Mithoff, Rev. Mr., i. 418-20.
Molloy, Capt., R.N., ii. 324-7.
Molyneux, Sir F., ii. 98.
Monckton, Hon. Miss (afterwards Countess of Cork), meets Fanny,
i. 248;
her assembly, 249-56, 257; ii. 102-3.
Monmoulin, Mdlle., i. 365; ii. 34, 270, 282, 295-6, 342.
Montagu, Duke of, i. 365, 440.
Montagu, Elizabeth, née Robinson,
her writings, conversation, and disposition, i. 97-8;
Johnson's opinion of, 99;
meets Fanny, 100-3;
her opinion of Johnson's "Life of Lord Lyttelton," 210;
praises "Cecilia," 251-2;
Frances Reynolds's letter to, 260;
mentioned, ii. 82, 424, 432, 450.
Montagu, Frederick, M.P., ii. 97, 291.
Montmorency, Viscount de, iii. 14, 28, 39, 53, 80.
Mordaunt, Lord, i. 134.
More, Hannah, her flattery, i. 122, 185.
Mornington, Lady, ii. 338.
Mortemart, Mdlle. de, iii. 218, 224.
Mount Edgecumbe, Lordand Lady, i. xvii ; ii. 323, 327.
Mount Edgecumbe, Fanny at, ii. 327.
Mountmorres, Lord, ii. 336-9.
Mulgrave, Lord, i. xvii, 168, 172-4-6; ii. 83, 150;
Lady, ii. 83, 150.
Mulso, Hester, see Chapone.
Murat, iii. 368.
Murphy, Arthur, offers to assist Fanny Burney in writing a play,
i. xxviii, 130-1, 133, 134.
Murray, Lady, iii. 419.
Musgrave, Mr., i. 221.
Musters, Mrs., a beauty, i. 154.
Napoleon, see Bonaparte,
Narbonne, Count de, in England, i. xliv; iii. 29-30, 35-7, 40,
43, 45, 52, 54, 57, 82, 97;
in France, 253;
his death, 273.
Necker, M., iii. 36, 47, 52, 220,
Netherlands, King and Queen of the, iii. 339, 365.
Newcastle, Duke of, ii. 96.
New Forest, the king's reception in the, ii. 310.
Ney, Marshal, and his iron cage for Napoleon, iii. 304.
Nicholson, Margaret, her attempt against the king, i. 355-61,
367.
Nore, the, mutiny at, iii. 139.
Norfolk, Duke of, iii. 158.
North, Colonel, ii. 97.
North, Lord, ii, 392.
Nugent, Colonel, reads an address to Louis XVIII., iii. 286.
Nuneham, royal visits to, i. 374-85, 396 ; ii- 156.
O'Connor, Arthur, iii. 166.
Ogle, Mrs., ii. 187-8; iii. 397.
Omai, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvii.
Orange, Prince (William 1. of Holland) and Princess of, iii. 147,
231, 339, 365.
Orange, Prince of (William II. of Holland), iii, 365.
Ord, Mrs., a "blue stocking," i. 259, 261-3, 333-4; ii. 82, 150,
370, 378, 410-29.
Orford, Lord, ii. 434-5.
"Original Love Letters," ii. 170, 182.
O'Riley, Miss, a flirt, i. 205.
Orleans, Mdlle d', ii. 449-50; iii. 23.
Orloff, Count, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvii.
Otaheite, rubbing noses at, iii. 60.
Owen, Miss, i. 13-5.
Oxford, royal visits to, i. xxxv-vi, 385-95; ii. 156.
Pacchierotti, Gasparo, vocalist, i. XVii, 121, 224, 263-4; ii.
356.
Paine, Thomas, in Suffolk, ii. 450.
Palmer, Miss, and "Evelina," i. 92-5;
at Reynolds's, 113-20, 228-9, 256;
at Cheltenham, ii. 169, 173-4, 411, 431;
inherits from Reynolds, marries Lord Inchiquin, 444.
Palmerston, Lord, i. 115-20.
Pamela, Mdme. de Genlis's, ii. 449; iii. 23.
Paoli, General Pasquale, pays homage to Fanny, i. xxvii;
her account OF, 23-5.
Paradise, Mr. and Mrs., i. 224-8.
Paris, Fanny in, iii. 215;
a parade in presence of the first Consul, 224 ;
the influenza in, 239;
on Napoleon's return from Elba, 305;
Fanny's flight from, 308 et seq.;
her return to, 378. Paston Letters," the, ii. 21-2, 150.
Payne and Cadell, publish "Cecilia," i. 254.
Pembroke, Elizabeth, Countess of, i- 135-6, 178.
Pepys, Lucas, Dr., afterwards Sir, i. 239; ii. 83, 126;
attends the king, 250-3, 262-4, 276, 284, 287; 432 ; iii.
177, 180.
Pepys, W. W., afterwards Sir, i. 148, 210-3, 239-41 ii.
82; iii. 177.
Percy, Bishop, ii. 428; iii. 44.
Perkins, Mr., i. 197.
Philidor, iii. 405.
Phillips, Captain Molesworth, i. 60, 224, 231 ; ii. 357, 437;
iii. 31, 35, 59, 71, 113;
Mrs., see Burney, Susanna.
Pinkethman, Mrs. and Dr. Johnson, i. 88.
Piozzi, Signor, marries Mrs. Thrale, i. 236-8, 278-9 ; iii. 88.
Piozzi, Mrs. (Thrale), leaves England, i. 237;
is gay and happy, 288 ;
publishes her correspondence with Johnson, ii. 74-8, 101;
is attacked by Baretti, ii. 167, 176;
meets Fanny, 355;
Dr. Burney, iii. 88;
at Bath, 386, 396-7, 422;
letters from, 443-5-7;
her death, 448;
compared with Mdme. de Stael, 449.
Pitt, William, and the Regency bill, i, XXXi., ii. 220-1;
and the Hastings trial, ii. 93, 108, 135;
at Windsor, 263;
D'Arblay's application to, iii. 74;
his "loyalty loan," 121.
Planta, Miss, English teacher and attendant to the princesses;
her intercourse with Fanny, i. 291, 349-51, 361, 365,
374-87, 390-8, 415, 437, 443, 446 ; ii. 18, 30-3, 46, 65-9,
85, 139, 155-9, 161-8, 170, 180-5, 189-94, 200-1, 218, 224,
228, 242, 246, 262, 266-9, 283, 312-4-6, 322-3, 327-9,
335-8, 405, 434; iii. 99, 142, 155, 163.
Plymouth dockyard, ii. 323.
Polier, Colonel, a gourmand, i. 336, 340, 345.
Polignac, Duke and Duchess de, at Windsor, ii. 39;
the duchess and the Diamond Necklace scandal, ibid.
Port, Miss, account of, i. 293;
at Mrs. Delany'S, 293, 298, 300;
serves tea to George III., 315, 318;
her intercourse with Fanny, 337-8, 342, 401, 418, 427, 440;
ii. 36, 39, 40, 46, 49, 141-2, 150, 184-6, 192.
Porteus, Dr., Bishop of Chester, i. 313 ; ii. 82.
Portland, Duchess of, née Harley, inquires after "Cecilia," i.
251, 253;
meets Fanny, 267-70;
her death, 290;
Duke of, iii. 125.
Powderham Castle, ii. 420.
Prémorel, M. de, iii. 340, 346, 377-8.
Price, Major, equerry to George III, i. 338, 344, 352, 355, 358,
363-6, 371, 380, 383-7, 390, 396-7, 400, 416, 421; ii, 17,
45, 176, 203, 206, 341, 346, 436.
Princes, the, see Cumberland, Gloucester, Dukes of, Wales,
Prince of, William, Prince (Duke of Clarence), and York,
Duke of.
Princess Royal, Charlotte (Queen of Wiirtemburg), i. 339, 348,
354, 358, 365, 375, 377-8, 385, 387, 416, 420, 422-3; ii.
10, 35, 199, 216, 266, 340, 347, 409, 447; iii. 104, 107;
is presented to her fiancé, 115; 122;
her marriage, 138-9.
Princesses, the, i- 353, 357, 365, 377, 389, 394; ii. 33, 224,
236, 265, 269-70, 271-2, 409, 455;
their births, marriages, deaths, iii. 123; 451, 454;
see also Amelia; Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary,
Princess Royal, and Sophia.
"Probationary Odes," the, ii. 145.
Prussia, King of, iii. 289.
Quatre Bras, battle of, iii. 347, 351.
Queen, the, see Charlotte, Queen.
Raikes, Robert, founder of Sunday schools, ii. 171-3.
Ramsden, Colonel, equerry, ii. 36-7, 407.
Regency bill, the, i. xxxix; ii. 220-1, 271, 276, 296-9.
Regent, Prince, see Wales.
Revolution, the French, résumé of the principal events of, from
September 1791 to March 1793, iii. 11-5;
the capture of the Bastille, 18;
the invasion of the Tuileries, 19;
the Duke de Liancourt's efforts at Rouen, 19-22;
decrees against the emigres, 33;
trial and execution of Louis XVI., 42-4, 48;
sieges of Dunk-irk and Toulon, 73-4, 78;
the insurrection of the 18th Fructidor, 136;
the "Vengeur" legend, 143;
the peace of Amiens, 171;
the revolutionary calendar, 214.
Reynolds, Mrs. Frances, i. 78, 199, 260.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, at Dr. Burney's, i. xvi;
reads "Evelina," 78;
his meeting and intercourse with Fanny, 92-5, 106, 113, 123,
125-6;
is derided by Blakeney, 160;
his opinion of Lawrence, 167;
his picture of Beattie, 184;
introduces Fanny to Burke and Gibbon, 228-32;
with Fanny at Miss Monckton's, 29-6, 259-60, 272; ii. 82;
at the Hastings trial, 100;
his failing eyesight, 333, 377, 411, 431-2;
his death, his disposition of his fortune, 444 ;
his paintings at Streatham, iii. 389.
Rhamus, Mr., ii. 11, 13.
Rhine, scenery of the, iii, 377.
Richmond, Reynolds's dinner party at, i. 228.
Richmond, Duke of, ii. 321;
Duchess of, her ball at Brussels, iii. 367.
Riggs, Mrs., i. 174, 189.
Roberts, Dr., provost of Eton, i. 401, 440.
Roche, Mdme. de la, authoress, i. 409-16.
Rochefoucault, Duke de la, iii. 22.
Rogers, Samuel, iii. 177, 270, 454.
Rothes, Lady, ii. 432; iii. 177, 180.
Rousseau, J. J., George III. on, i. xxx, 316.
Rovigo, Duke de, iii. 253.
Royal, Princess, see Princess.
Rumford, Count, iii. 133.
Russia, Alexander 1. of, iii. 289.
Rutland, Mary Isabella, Duchess of, i. 215.
Sackville, Lord George, R. Cumberland and George III. on, i.
315-6.
St. Asaph's, Bishop of, 1, 229.
St. James's Palace, Court drawingrooms at, i. 308, 350, 369 ; ii.
9-15, 33-5, 65-6, 85, 304, 335;
the Court at, 345-73, 382, 396, 408 ;
attempt against George III. outside, i. 356.
St. just, de, iii. 35.
St. Vincent, Lord, iii. 143.
Salisbury, i. 197;
Bishop of, i. 338; iii. 386, 437;
Marquis of, ii. 292, 399.
Saltram, the Court at, ii. 323.
Sandwich, Earl of, i. xvii.
Savile, Sir George, i. 193.
Saxe-Gotha, Duke of, i. 344.
Saye and Sele, Lady, i. 225-8; ii. 151;
Lord, i. 227-8.
Schwellenberg, -,Mrs., keeper of the queen's robes,
Fanny's life with, i. xxxiv, X1, x1ii, 290;
knows Mrs. Hastings, 327-8;
Fanny is introduced to her, 331-2, 335-40, 344-53, 355, 358;
Fanny's bitter experience of her begins, 359 ; 360;
invites herself to supper, 363
falls ill, 366;
offers Fanny a gown from the queen, 367;
in a Pet, 371; 373-4;
makes mischief about Mrs. Hastings, 400;
her tyranny, 404; 4113-5, 418-20
again ill, 421-2, 425; ii. 35;
teased by the equerries, 42-6;
suspicious of Turbulent, 46, 52, 56;
her tyrannical ways, 62, 65-8;
her capriciousness, 68-71 72;
does Fanny a favour, 74-7;
extremely ill, 84, 139;
returns to Windsor, 152;
Fanny's nickname for, 157;
twits Fanny about marriage, 209, 217;
rails at her, 215-6;
angry with Goldsworthy, 217;
again ill, 218;
during the king's illness, 246-7, 253, 269, 271;
her cruelty to Fanny, 272-4;
her aversion for Fairly' 275; 282-3;
George III. on her conduct, 290;
accuses Fanny of visiting gentlemen, 295;
in a temper, 301-2;
is mystified, 304;
rails at Fairly, 341;
with Fanny, 347, 378-9, 381, 384-7;
at Prince William's drinking bout, 396-8;
is kissed by him, 400;
her severity, 4o6;
takes leave of Fanny, 407;
with her again, 434-7;
is all civility, 447;
her death, iii. 142.
Scott, Major, ii. 92, 105, 108.
Scott, Sir Walter, iii- 454-5.
"Seduction," a play, ii. 32.
Selwyn, Mr., banker, i. 161-7.
Sercey, Henriette de, ii. 449-50; iii. 23.
Seward, William, i. xxvii;
his meetings with Fanny, 77-8, 89, 90, 109-10;
and Sophy Streatfield, 132, 137, 142, 144-5;
his ennui and suggested play, 142-4, 212-5, 218-22, 272;
meets Fanny at Cheltenham, ii. 167, 170, 173; 411 ; iii.
174;
his death, 183.
Shakespeare, George III.'s opinions of, i. xxx, 318;
gallery, the, ii. 464.
Shelley, Lady, i. 242.
Shenstone, William, i. 212.
Shepherd, Dr. A., ii. 55, 208-11, 217.
Sherborne Castle, ii. 319, 330.
Sheridan, R. B., eulogises Fanny, i. xxvi;
marries Miss Linley, 111-2, 344;
meets Fanny, 123, 145;
Mrs. Thrale's bon mot on, 223;
at the Hastings trial, ii. 93, 139, 438.
Sheridan, Mrs., née Linley,
her beauty, talents, marriage, i. 111-2;
meets Fanny, 121, 344.
Shipley, Georgiana, i. 229.
Siddons, Mrs., meets Fanny, i. 257 ;
praised by George III., 321;
disappointing on near acquaintance, ii. 52; 317-9;
buys Sadler-,' Wells, iii. 149.
Sidmouth, ii. 419.
Sleepe, Esther, mother of Fanny Burney,
her marriage and death, i. xiv;
Mr., i. 199.
Smelt, Mr., Court official, i. 166, 324, 327-31, 437-9, 443-5;
ii. 9, 15, 19, 20-2, 50, 83, 241, 243-4, 273, 276-7, 293,
297, 300, 303;
Mrs., i. 437-8, 440; ii. 241.
Smith, Mr. Thrale's Cousin, i. 106-7.
Smith, Charlotte, iii. 75.
Sophia, Princess, and Mr. Webb's nose, 1. 311; 353, 365; ii. 34,
211, 309, 406, 434, 455; iii. 140,
156.
Sophia of Gloucester, Princess, see Gloucester.
Southwell, Lord, i. 209.
Souza, Mdme. de, iii. 236-8.
Spanish prisoners at Dunkirk, iii. 259;
ship captured, 399.
Spencer, Countess, i. 359; ii. 424-9; iii. 92;
Earl, 424-7;
the Ladies, i. 386-7-9; ii. 23.
Stael, Madame de, in England, i. xliv, iii. 14, 32;
her first letters in English, 45;
Fanny's admiration for, 46-8, 50;
Dr. Burney's disapproval of, 51;
defended by Fanny, 52, 55-61 80;
snubbed by Fanny, 220;
regretted by her, 269, 382;
compared with Mrs. Thrale, 449;
M. de, iii. 47.
Stainsforth, Mrs., ii. 399.
Stanhope, Mr., ii. 396.
Stonehenge, ii. 417.
Stormont, Lord, ii. 446.
Strange, Sir Robert and Lady, iii. 173;
Mary Bruce, i. 288.
Streatfield, Mrs., i. 149-50;
Sophia, the weeping beauty, i. 132-3, 137-42, 144-5, 149-53,
219-21, 283; ii. 450; Iii. 405.
Streatham, the Thrales' residence at, i. xxvi;
Fanny at, 75-8, 80, 110, 127-33, 137-49, 203-23;
the paintings at, iii. 389;
dismantled and forsaken, 448.
Stuart, Lady, Louisa, ii. 69-70.
Sunday schools established, ii. 171.
Sydney, Lady, ii. 317.
Talleyrand-PérigGord, Charles Maurice de, at juniper Hall, i.
xliv; iii. 14, 39;
is found charming, 50; 53, 55;
his letters of adieu, 83;
Fanny indignant with, 153;
her bon mot to, 382.
Tallien, iii. 47.
Taylor, Michael Angelo, ii. 97, 145, 452.
Templetown, Lord and Lady, ii. 151.
Tewkesbury, Fanny at, ii. 191.
Thackeray, Mrs., ii. 69.
Thielky, Mrs., i. 340, 345-6, 353, 374, 381-2.
Thrale, Mr., "Evelina" read to, i. 71;
his character and acquirements, 75; 82, 86, 89, 90, 92, 96,
127-8, 132-4, 149, 153, 166, 168, 194-7;
his death, 200-3.
Thrale, Mrs., hears about "Evelina," i. xxv,
her character and disposition, xxvi;
her second marriage, xxix
admires "Evelina," 68, 71-2;
advises Fanny to write for the stage, 74, 129-31;
her kindness to Fanny, 76, 80;
praises "Evelina" to Dr. Lort, 90-1;
to Mrs. Montagu, 102-5;
makes sport with Reynolds, 92-5;
converses with Johnson, 95-7;
her opinions of him, 104-6;
suggests some husbands for Fanny, 106-8;
mentioned, 109-10;
at Brighton with Fanny, 133, 136, 149, 339-48;
with Sophy Streatfield, 132, 137-42;
meets the Cumberlands, 156-8;
converses with Blakeney, 159-63;
at Bath with Fanny, 165-97;
loses her husband, 200-3;
banters Crutchley, 216-9;
her opinion of Mrs. Siddons, 257;
alluded to, 258, 262, 265;
her fascination and Wit, 277;
marries PiOzzi, 236-8. See Piozzi, Mrs.
Thrale, Hester[" Queenie "], i. 75, 76, 92, 93, 101, 102, 133,
149, 157, 203, 206-8, 224, 240, 243,
284;
Susan, i. 133, 240.
Thurlow, Lord Chancellor, ii. 99, 104, 263.
Tottenham Court, royal visit to, ii. 332;
paintings at, 332-3.
Toulon, siege of, iii. 73-4, 76, 78, 90.
Tour du Pin, M. and Mdme. de la, iii. 335, 343, 349-50, 364.
Tournai, Fanny arrives at, iii. 327.
Travell, Beau, i. 76.
Treves, Fanny's journey to, iii. 370-8.
Tryon, Miss, ii. 304.
Tucker, Dean, ii. 173.
Tuileries, the, invaded, iii. 19;
Bonaparte at, 224;
Duchess d'Angouleme at, 294.
Tunbridge, Fanny at, i. 112, 149.
Turbulent, Mr. (Rev. C. de Guiffardi6re), account Of, i. 436;
on Court routine, 443-4;
introduces Wellbred to Fanny, ii. 16-21, 22;
Worries Fanny, 24;
teases Princess Augusta, 26-8;
meets with a rebuff, 28-31;
with the queen, 35;
Mrs, Schwellenberg suspicious of, 46;
annoys Fanny, 47-8;
troublesome again, 54, 56-8;
condemns himself, 80, 140-1;
his troublesome pleasantries, 151-2, 208;
rails at Fanny, 214-5;
greatly altered, 222;
during the king's illness, 244, 341, 400, 403.
Turner, Sir G. P., i. 227.
Twining, Rev. T., i. xvi.
Valletort, Lord, ii. 327-9.
Vandamme, General, iii. 368.
"Vengeur," legend of the, iii. 143,
Vernon, the Misses, i. 379, 383-7, 393, 396-8.
Vesey, Mrs., a bluestocking, i. 98, 122, 277. 373 ; ii. 97.
Victoire, Madame, daughter of Louis XV., iii. 36-7.
Villiers, Hon. George, ii. 305, 307, 321.
Vincent, Count de, iii. 351.
Voltaire, George III. on, i. xxx, 316.
Waldegrave, Lady Caroline, i. 340; ii, 238, 322;
Lady Elizabeth, i. 340, 365; ii. 39, 230-1, 233, 235, 238,
240, 246, 252, 259, 265-6, 275, 322.
Wales, Prince of (George IV.), i. 360;
his good heart but suspicious conduct, 373;
his mother's anxiety regarding him, 432;
on bad terms with the king, ii. 10;
with the Polignacs, 39;
reconciled with his father, 40;
With the Duke of York at Windsor, 49-51;
with the queen, 61, 64;
at the Hastings trial, 98;
his animal spirits, 189;
eyes Fanny curiously, 211;
and the Regency bill, 221;
at Windsor during the king's illness, 228, 235, 237, 239-41,
242-5, 263-4;
goes to Kew, 266;
at the play, 436; iii. 160;
eulogised by Dr. Burney, 243;
by the Duchess d'Angouleme, 299;
his matrimonial troubles, 440-1.
Wallace, Mr., attorney-general, i. 205.
Waller, Edmund, ii. 204.
Wallis, Miss, iii. i49.
Walpole, Horace, "Evelina" attributed to, i. 79;
chats with Fanny, ii. 85, 411; iii. 219. See Orford.
Walsingham, Mrs., entertains Fanny, i. 256-7, 307;
Lord, ii. 126.
"Wanderer, The," Mme. d'Arblay's novel, i. Xlvi, lv; iii. 248-9,
255, 272-3-5.
Warren, Dr., ii. 224-5, 245, 280;
Lady, her tale of a dowry hunter, i. 242.
Warton, Dr. Joseph, i. 123, 401-2, 422 ; ii. 32 1.
Waterloo, battle of, iii, 357-68.
Webb, Mr., his huge nose, i. 311.
Wedderburn, Alex., see Loughborough.
Wellbred (Greville), Colonel, king's equerry,
introduced to Fanny, ii. 16-21;
disposition, 36-8;
derides Manners, 40-2, 43-4;
Fanny's opinion of, 78-9;
his powers of sight, 84, 139, 151-2;
accompanies George III. to Kew, 268, 285, 291.
Wellesley, Lady Anne, ii. 338.
Wellington, Duke of, iii. 291;
at Brussels, 341-2, 345, 355
at Waterloo, 360-7.
Wells Cathedral, ii. 422.
Wells, Mrs., actress, ii. 318, 464-8.
West, Benjamin, R.A., ii. 35.
Wesley, Charles, i. 344; iii. 183.
Weston, Miss, i. 179-80.
Weymouth, the Court at, ii. 313
Lady, i. 291 ; ii- 39, 155, 157, 162, 164, 185.
See Bath, Marchioness of.
Whalley, Mr. and Mrs., i. 171-5, 180.
Whitworth, Lord, iii. 240.
Wieland, i. 409-10, 412.
Wilberforce, W., iii. 271, 442.
Wilkes, John, ii. 339.
William, Prince, Duke of Clarence, ii. 98, 189, 308;
his partiality for champagne, 395-400; 436, 454; iii- 150,
421, 436.
Williams, Anna, and " Evelina," i. 75;
Johnson's account of, 95;
befriended by Mrs. Montagu, 98, 258.
Willis, Dr., senior, attends the king, ii. 274, 276-9, 290-1,
293, 296, 298;
Dr. John, ii. 274, 278-9, 287, 291;
Rev. Thos., ii. 277, 278-9, 335, 346.
Wilton, ii. 417;
Lord Grey de, ii. 291.''
Winchester, ii. 413-7.
Windham, William, M.P., eulogises Fanny xxvi ;
at the Hastings trial, ii. 102-119, 120-1, 123, 130-8,
144-9, 352-5, 357-65, 370-3, 390, 393, 438-43, 444-6, 447,
452;
portrayed by Fairly, 297-8;
urges that Fanny should resign, 376;
judged by Burke, 460; 463; iii. 38;
at the Literary Club, 44;
at Burke's funeral, 125;
his good breeding, 279.
Windsor, Fanny at, i. )2-326, 331, 333;
the Court at, 19-49, 352-66, 400-447; ii.
16-31, 35-53, 55-61, 72-81, 139, 207; '
during the king's illness, 222-64; 333, 340, 347, 373, 401;
iii. 99-112, 185-7.
"Witlings, The," Fanny's comedy,
Macaulay's account of, xviii;
praised by Arthur Murphy, 133;
its fate, 145-9.
Worcester, royal Visit to, ii. 109.
Wurtembvirg, Prince of, iii. 115, 156.
Wycherley, W, ii. 460.
Wynn, Sir Watkin, ii. 291.
W---, Miss, a young infidel, i. 180-4, 190-1; ii. 191.
York, Archbishop Markham of, ii. 105.
York, Duchess of, ii. 436, 454; Iii. 111-2, 145.
York, Frederick, Duke of, mentioned, i. 401, 417;
returns to England, 49-51, 59, 63;
with the queen, 85;
at the Hastings trial, 98;
his animal spirits, 189;
at Cheltenham, 190;
at Windsor during the king's illness, 226, 237;
his father's favourite, 241, 242, 246, 251;
his wife, 436;
at the siege of Dunkirk, iii. 73;
commander-in-chief, 11-2.
Young, Arthur, ii. 449;
invites Fanny to Bradfield, 468;
with the Duke de Liancourt, iii. 17-28;
Mrs., ii, 449;
Mary, ii. 449.
Young, Profesor , iii. 176.
TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH,